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“In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone…?” In this memorable scene, the monotonous...Refraction under GA in children using cycloplegic refraction as a reference
4 August 2021
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Accommodation, cycloplegia, general anesthesia, refraction
The authors aimed to compare the measurements of cycloplegic refraction and refraction (R1-1) under general anaesthesia (GA) with automated refraction (ARF) in paediatric patients and to determine the impact of GA on accommodation. The study included 222 eyes of 222...
Eyelid lesions and excision results
3 April 2023
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This was a retrospective study of 137 consecutive, non-chalazion, paediatric eyelid lesions excised between 2013-2020. Mean age at diagnosis and excision was 8.24 years (four months to 18 years) and 55.1% were female. Benign non-cystic epithelial lesions accounted for about...
Secondary intraocular lens implantation in children
1 February 2014
| Jonathan Chan
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Child Health (paediatrics), Lens and Zonules
This is a retrospective study of the medical records of children under the age of 16 who underwent secondary lens implantation for aphakic corrections after previous congenital cataract surgery over a period between January 2000 and December 2010. The study...
Angle of deviation measurements in seated and supine positions
1 April 2019
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Suture adjustment, single-stage adjustable sutures, strabismus surgery, supine decubitus versus seated position, topical anesthesia
The objectives of this study were to compare ocular deviation between the seated and decubitus positions in the operating room and assess the outcomes at one day, one month and three months postoperatively. This prospective study included 30 cases; two...
Lateral rectus transposition for vertical rectus muscle palsy
3 April 2023
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This study reports the surgical outcomes of patients with vertical rectus palsy in whom the vertical duction deficit is worse in abduction than in adduction. The procedure involved lateral rectus belly transposition without muscle splitting or disinsertion. The lateral rectus...
Ophthalmology in Bangladesh
5 August 2020
| Hayley Coates
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Ophthalmology
Imaging Specialist Hayley Coates steps outside her comfort zone to experience ophthalmology in a resource-poor setting. As one of the most densely populated countries in the world, Bangladesh also has one of the highest rates of preventable blindness, worldwide. It...
Surgical management of high myopia strabismus
4 February 2021
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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High myopia, exotropia hypotropia complex, nasal loop myopexy
This is a small case series of three patients with unilateral or bilateral high myopia with exotropia and hypotropia. Surgery involved nasal loop myopexy between the medial and superior recti muscles with or without lateral rectus recession and / or...
Hidden eyelid laceration following blunt trauma
3 April 2024
| Sarah E O’Beirne, Jennifer HY Tan
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Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Cornea / External Eye Disease
A paediatric case report of a hidden eyelid laceration following blunt trauma. Blunt injury to the eyelid can result in a multitude of issues, such as damage to the eyelid margin, lacrimal system and surrounding orbit [1]. These can often...
Building Capacity for Children’s Eye Care in Africa: the VISION 2020 LINKS Programme
1 December 2013
| Marcia Zondervan, Claire Walker
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Ophthalmology, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus
This article follows the Correspondent News articles in the previous five print issues of Eye News [1-5] on the VISION 2020 LINKS Programme [6]. This article describes how African and UK eye care teams are working together to tackle childhood...
Use of Strabocheck to measure angle of deviation
3 April 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
Strabocheck (SK) is a free to access software and is a measurement of deviation angle based on the corneal light reflex in monocular and binocular photographs uploaded to the website. The purpose of this study was to evaluate SK in...
Direct endoscopic probing for congenital lacrimal duct obstruction
1 April 2014
| Anjali Gupta
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Ophthalmology
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congenital lacrimal duct obstruction (CLDO), dacryoendoscopy, endoscopic probing
The most common treatment for congenital lacrimal duct obstruction (CLDO) is probing, which is traditionally a blind procedure. Previous literature reports success rates between 78-92%. The authors of this retrospective non comparative case series reviewed the success rates of probing...