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UKISCRS 2025 Cornea & Cataract Day
19 May 2025
Can closing the eyelid during riboflavin induction phase of crosslinking increase corneal thickness?
1 August 2019
| Bushra Thajudeen
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Cataract and Refractive
Corneal crosslinking (CXL) with riboflavin and UVA irradiation is the standard treatment for preventing progression of keratoconus. Thinning of the cornea during the riboflavin loading phase was reported in previous studies which used riboflavin with dextran. A minimum stromal thickness...
Corneal transplantation in the United Kingdom: are we blind to the challenges that still exist after the Organ Donation Bill?
Corneal transplantation (CT) is a significant treatment option for a huge number of patients in the United Kingdom (UK) [1]. For an individual, CT results in a substantial improvement in quality of life. Penetrating keratoplasty with full thickness grafting has...γδ T cell depletion does not affect fungal keratitis
1 August 2015
| Graham Wallace
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
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CFW, Cytokines, FK, Fungal keratitis, IL-17, Neutrophils, calcofluor WHITE, fungal keratitis, γδ T cells
Fungal keratitis (FK) is a blinding condition prevalent in agricultural areas of countries such as India and China. The fungus enters the cornea and induces an inflammatory response which leads to tissue damage. Neutrophils are the earliest infiltrating immune cells...
Mini DMEK for acute hydrops
1 October 2019
| Bushra Thajudeen
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
This is a retrospective analysis of three patients who underwent mini DMEK for massive corneal hydrops in acute keratoconus. DMEK graft was trephined or trimmed according to the size and the shape of the gap in the patient’s Descemet membrane...
Corneal stroma modelling under hypoxic conditions
1 August 2018
| Graham Wallace
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
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Confocal fluorescence microscopy, Cornea, Corneal organ culture, Extracellular matrix, Stroma
The cornea is exposed to hypoxia under several conditions including sleep, inflammation and wound healing. Being an avascular tissue to maintain transparency, how the cornea homeostatic controls oxygen tension is important. To address this process two models were utilised; a...
Maintenance therapy for CMV endotheliitis
1 August 2016
| Magdalena Popiela
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been associated with corneal endotheliitis, leading to endothelial cell loss and corneal decompensation. CMV corneal endotheliitis recurrence can affect between 5-60% of eyes after cessation of anti-CMV therapy. Each recurrence of endotheliitis has a detrimental effect on...
Effect of rebubbling after DMEK
1 August 2018
| Bushra Thajudeen
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
This study objectively evaluated the impact of rebubbling on postoperative corneal clarity and endothelial cell loss (ELD) after DMEK. This was a retrospective analysis of 132 consecutive DMEK cases performed for Fuchs endothelial dystrophy or pseudophakic bullous keratopathy. Patients were...
Topical insulin for neurotrophic ulcers
1 February 2018
| Magdalena Popiela
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
This retrospective case series described the use of topical insulin drops as an aid in treatment of refractory neurotrophic corneal ulceration in six patients. Insulin drops were prepared under sterile conditions from standard insulin preparations mixed with artificial tears containing...
Outcomes of hemi DMEK
1 August 2018
| Bushra Thajudeen
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
This was a prospective, interventional case series of 10 eyes from 10 patients who underwent hemi-descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (hemi-DMEK) for Fuchs endothelial dystrophy. The surgical technique for hemi DMEK procedure was similar to the circular DMEK except that a...
Keratoconus cone variants
1 December 2017
| Magdalena Popiela
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
This retrospective study examined correlation between three keratoconic parameters to further understand anatomy of keratoconic cones. Kmax and pachymetry of the thinnest point were obtained from the Pentacam scans. Decentration was calculated as distance from the corneal vertex to the...
Temporal versus nasal clear corneal incisions
1 April 2019
| Jonathan Chan
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Cataract and Refractive
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cataract surgery, corneal shape change, nasal clear corneal incision, temporal clear corneal incision
This is a prospective randomised study of 100 patients’ left eye having undergone phacoemulsification either by a 2.4mm nasal clear corneal incision (CCI) group or temporal CCI group. The corneal astigmatic changes were compared between groups by power vector analysis,...