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Herpes zoster ophthalmicus: the essentials
24 July 2020
| Charles O’Donovan
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Ophthalmology, Optometry, Cornea / External Eye Disease, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
Herpes zoster, also referred to as shingles, is a common infection most typically caused by the reactivation of varicella zoster virus that lies dormant (sometime for decades) in the dorsal root nerve ganglion following primary chickenpox infection [1]. In 10-20%...
Visual snow syndrome: a review
11 January 2024
| Ivan Yip
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
Visual snow syndrome (VSS) is a neurological condition characterised by visual phenomena described as dots moving across the visual field. Other visual symptoms can take the form of palinopsia, entopic phenomena, photophobia and nyctalopia. Tinnitus and migraine can be commonly...
Smoking and Behçet’s disease
1 October 2015
| Saruban Pasu
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Behçet disease, cigarette, ocular behçet, smoking, uveitis
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between smoking and prognosis of ocular Behçet’s disease (BD). Records of 202 patients with ocular features of BD were reviewed from a Turkish hospital. Patients were divided into two groups according to their...
Ocular blood flow changes in Behcet disease
This study evaluates ocular blood flow changes in both ocular Behcets disease (BD) and non-ocular BD (with or without thrombotic disease) and compares these findings with a healthy control group. A total of 90 eyes with BD were evaluated with...Diagnostic procedures in vitreoretinal lymphoma.
1 December 2014
| Nikolaos D Georgakarakos
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Biopsy, diagnosis, masquerade, vitrectomy, vitreoretinal lymphoma
This paper presented a retrospective review of medical records of HIV negative immunocompetent patients diagnosed with vitreoretinal lymphoma between 1994 and 2012. The aim of the paper was to evaluate the type and number of diagnostic interventions required to confirm...
Detection of antiranibizumab antibodies in exudative AMD
1 December 2014
| Sofia Rokerya
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
In this study the authors aimed to detect immune response to ranibizumab treatment in wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). An ELISA was employed to quantify the anti-ranibizumab titre which was compared against the control anti-abciximab titre. Titres of anti-ranibizumab antibodies...
Use of oral fluorescein angiography in a paediatric population
1 July 2024
| Lauren R Hepworth
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors report a retrospective records review of all patients who received an oral ultrawide fluorescein angiography (FA) over a 42-month period at a single children’s hospital. Data were extracted from the records including indication for FA, adverse events, pauses...
Neuro-ophthalmology consequences of Lyme disease
This study sought to review the seasonality and the occurrence of Lyme disease within their institution with a focus on neuro-ophthalmic consequences. This was a retrospective study of 212 children: 50 (24%) with neuroborreliosis (NB). There was an increase in...Moorfields Education: Hot topics in comprehensive ophthalmology
7 February 2025
Hot topics in comprehensive ophthalmology is a course for people who work in the field suitable for comprehensive/general ophthalmologists, urgent care and primary care, optometrists and nurse practitioners. This is an update on common themes which appear in the comprehensive...
Things I’d tell my medical school self, had I known my first year on the job would be during a global pandemic
In a conversation with his younger self, a foundation doctor reflects on the contrast between his expectations of medicine at university and the reality of working during the coronavirus pandemic. Every doctor arrives at medical school with nervous anticipation, yet...Lessons from an unusual case of syphilis
3 August 2023
| Ryian Mohamed, Shaman Dolly, Jonathan Than, Shweta Anand
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
The rise of syphilis transmission rates over the past two decades has been one of public health’s great puzzles. In the UK, the situation has reached epidemic levels, with a 126% increase between 2013 and 2018 [1]. We present a...
2018/19 Ophthalmology Honours results announced
13 March 2019
Recipients of the 2018/19 Ophthalmology Honours by Bayer were recognised during a presentation held at BMA House, London.