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A novel test for unilateral functional visual loss
1 April 2017
| Claire Howard
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Bilateral concurrent eye examination, functional visual loss, head-mounted perimetry
The authors report results of three cases of functional visual loss, where regular ophthalmic testing was not sufficient to confirm the diagnosis. In these cases, bilateral concurrent eye examination was performed using a head-mounted perimeter (imo), to facilitate the diagnosis....
Visual defects in deaf children and young adults
1 August 2014
| Nana Theodorou
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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binocular vision, deaf, reading, refraction, vision
This literature review article serves as a great update on the current evidence relating to visual defects in the young deaf population. There is a good introduction with background information and demographic data relating to UK hearing impairment. The authors...
A case report of visual loss as a consequence of coeliac disease
The authors present a case of permanent visual loss secondary to occipital lobe calcification in coeliac disease, the first reported such case. The 58-year-old man had been diagnosed with coeliac disease 20 years prior to his visual investigations and had...Visual field changes in thyroid eye disease (TED)
1 April 2018
| Jaya Myneni
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Oculoplastics, Orbit
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Thyroid eye disease, compressive optic neuropathy, visual field
This study is a retrospective non- comparative review of visual field (VF) tests in patients with compressive optic neuropathy from thyroid eye disease (TED-CON). Ninety-six visual fields in 68 patients were included in the study and a two-step analysis of...
Strabismus surgical outcome with unilateral visual loss
1 April 2015
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The purpose of this study was to analyse the surgical outcome of strabismus surgery in patients with unilateral visual loss and horizontal strabismus. This was a retrospective review of 21 patients. Nine children were reviewed with a mean age of...
Risk factors for visual impairment in facial nerve palsy
1 December 2022
| Hetvi Bhatt
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Oculoplastics, Orbit
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Bell’s palsy, facial nerve paralysis, lagophthalmos, ocular surface exposure, paralytic ectropion
Facial nerve palsy (FNP) is known to be associated with corneal exposure due to the nature of the condition, but how many of those will go on to develop severe visual impairment (SVI)? This study investigates the risk factors associated...
Effective contrast ratio as a measure of binocular visual perception
2 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors used a binocular phase combination paradigm to quantitatively evaluate and compare the binocular visual perception of normal individuals and patients with different types of strabismus to understand the binocular visual perception of patients with strabismus and evaluate whether...
Visual acuity after cataract surgery in AMD patients
1 October 2014
| Brian Ang
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Cataract and Refractive
The data from this study are obtained from the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) 2 and analysed to evaluate if cataract surgery benefits patients with concurrent age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The AREDS 2 was a five year, prospective, multi-centre randomised...
Association of sleep problems in children with visual impairment
1 December 2022
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The intention of this study was to investigate sleep problems in children who had a wide range of visual impairments. Recruitment was via an online survey distributed through the National Federation of Blind and National Organisation for Albinism and Hypopigmentation,...
Childhood blindness and visual impairment in the Narayani Zone of Nepal
1 April 2020
| Patty Mopamboli Mboli
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
Up to 50% of childhood blindness is preventable or treatable, and its control is a high priority in the VISION 2020 initiative of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. In this study, the authors utilised the rapid assessment...
Visual retraining for homonymous hemianopia following stroke
4 August 2021
| Anna Song
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Clinical trials, Neuro-ophthalmology, Stroke, Visual fields, Visual loss
This is a clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of motion discrimination training as a potential therapy for stroke-induced hemianopic visual field defects involving 48 patients. They were randomised into two arms, one intervention (deficit-field) and one control (sighted-field). Patients were...
Transient visual loss caused by crowded optic discs
5 April 2022
| Claire Howard
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Young, amaurosis, crowded, female, optic disc, visual loss
The author presents four cases of transient visual loss (TVL) in young females (age range at presentation 14-22 years) with crowded optic discs. Patient demographics, investigations, medical and social histories are provided for all patients. A review of evidence for...