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Immunoglobulin G4-related ophthalmic disease – what is it? (Part 2)

3 April 2023 |
Part 2: Clinical presentation and treatment (see part 1 here) Introduction IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is understood to have a vast clinicopathological spectrum; nearly every organ has had reported involvement. Similarly, IgG4-related ophthalmic disease (IgG4-ROD) is known to affect nearly every...

Pathological myopia: a trainer’s perceptive

3 April 2024 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
High myopia is defined as myopic refraction of greater than -6 dioptres with an axial length greater than 26.5mm, while pathological myopia is myopic refraction with posterior pole degeneration [1]. These degenerative changes can affect a young population and in...

Sickle cell eye disease: an overview of vitreoretinal complications and their surgical management

1 December 2016 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Sickle cell disease is the most common genetic disorder worldwide and is associated with lifelong anaemia, intermittent pain and multi-organ morbidity. Ocular involvement can be associated with significant visual impairment due to the complications of proliferative sickle retinopathy (PSR). Occasionally...

RCOphth 2024 Report

28 May 2024 | EyeConUK, RCOphth2024, Royal College of Ophthalmology, events, meetings, reports, previews, Eye News
A comprehensive tapestry of all our RCOphth Annual Congress content captured between 20–23 May 2024.

Lost in translation

1 June 2022 | | Ophthalmology
The article that follows is a collection of reflections and observations by Peter (British) and Nathan (Singaporean) living and working in each other’s countries. Peter Cackett “Best thing about this place is it’s not still full of pompous ex-colonials who...

Mucormycosis: In conversation with Dr Deepak Haldipur and Dr Aditya Moorthy

15 July 2021 | | COVID-19, Ophthalmology, Orbit, Oculoplastics, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
COVID-19 has ravaged the world in the past 18 months. The second wave in many countries was deadlier than the first. Mucormycosis, infamously labelled ‘the black fungus’ has affected some countries, such as India, in epidemic proportions within this COVID...

Dark circles and facial rejuvenation

1 June 2014 | | Oculoplastics, Orbit
A 45-year-old socialite lady comes for cosmetic consultation and wants a remedy for dark circles and facial ageing. How do you manage this patient? Issues of dark circles and facial ageing should be addressed separately. Facial ageing should be considered...

Breakthroughs in the genetics of angle-closure glaucoma

1 April 2017 | | Glaucoma, Genetics
Angle closure glaucoma (ACG) is not widely known to be a familial condition, yet the recent explosion of genetic data and large scale genome wide investigations have confirmed at least 13 genetic loci associated with ACG [1], and provided some...

The management of watery eye in an infant with facial dysmorphism

1 April 2015 | | Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
A six-month-old child with facial dysmorphism is brought to the eye clinic with history of watery right eye since birth. How will you manage this child? Causes for watery eye in an infant 1. Overproduction of tears a. Infections b....