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Glaucoma UK’s World Glaucoma Week campaign to increase awareness of glaucoma risk factors
16 March 2023
World Glaucoma Week is an annual initiative which brings health organisation and charities from around the world together to amplify health messages relating to glaucoma and raise awareness of the disease.
Full programme released for the SEE Summit
28 September 2023
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sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SEE, SEE Summit, ABDO, Conference, event
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) has announced the full programme for the SEE Summit, which takes place on 9 October 7pm–9pm online.
Changes in parafoveal retinal thickness after bariatric surgery in type 2 diabetics
1 December 2016
| Bheemanagouda Patil
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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OCT, bariatric surgery, diabetic retinopathy, gastric bypass surgery, retinal vessel calibres
Bariatric surgery induces an instant normalisation of blood glucose in as many as 80% of patients with type 2 diabetes. It has been previously reported that diabetic retinopathy (DR) is stable within one year after bariatric surgery. In this study,...
OCT angiography and retinal vein occlusions
1 April 2016
| Efrosini Papagiannuli
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
In this retrospective, observational case series, the authors set out to evaluate the morphology of the superficial and deep capillary plexa of eyes that suffered a retinal vein occlusion (RVO) on OCT angiography (OCTA) and compare the findings with fluorescein...
Can OCT predict Alzheimer’s disease?
Simerdip Kaur takes a look at the latest ophthalmology-related news stories and asks which are based on facts and which are ‘fake news’. Headline: Can OCT predict Alzheimer’s disease? In 1986 Hinton et al. demonstrated evidence of optic nerve degeneration...Handheld OCT in children with Down’s syndrome
1 December 2022
| Ivan Yip
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This article investigated the use of handheld optical coherence tomography (OCT) in children with Down’s syndrome. Fourteen children were recruited to the study with a mean age of 6 years and 10 months with 57% male. All patients were dilated....
Macular pigment in relatives of AMD patients
3 April 2024
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Blue light causes photo-oxidative retinal injury and macular pigment (MP), with lutein, zeaxanthin and mesozeaxanthin as the main components, as a filter that protects the macula from this damage. Previous studies indicated that low levels of macular pigment optical density...
"Just a ‘thank you’ would be enough", says Belfast nurse
A nurse from Belfast who had her glasses broken by a patient has been given free laser eye surgery, in a campaign to thank frontline workers.Choroidal and RNFL thickness in patients with OSAS
1 August 2015
| Anjali Gupta
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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choroidal thickness, obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography
In obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS), hypoxia secondary to repetitive apnoeic episodes leads to blood pressure variations and haemodynamic changes. There is also intermittent activation of the sympathetic system when the patient is aroused from sleep during apnoeic episodes. OSAS...
Effects of idiopathic intracranial hypertension on the optic nerves
7 April 2021
| Claire Howard
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Optic nerve, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, papilloedema
The authors review the latest evidence regarding how the optic nerves are affected by idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), possible pathophysiology and methods of assessment. IIH is described as a clinical syndrome of raised intracranial pressure of unknown aetiology. A systematic...
Corneal and astigmatic changes after medial rectus recession surgery of 6mm
3 October 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This study prospectively compared changes in astigmatism before and two months after unilateral recession of medial rectus muscles using Pentacam. The fellow unoperated eye was used as the control eye. The study included 66 eyes and 33 patients; 21 males,...
UWE are triumphant in Optoversity Challenge 2024
8 May 2024
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optometry, optician, competition, opportunities, university challenge, optoversity, regional, fundraising, charity
University of the West of England School of Optometry emerged as champions in this years’ Optoversity Challenge, beating off competition from eleven other institutions from around the UK and ROI. Run by the student training provider Out of the Box Optics, the online event saw second place going to Bradford, and third place to Plymouth.