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GREG (Gloucestershire Research & Education Group): Introduction to Grading Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)
11 November 2024
-12 November 2024
This course has been designed to introduce students to grading in diabetic retinopathy, based around national standards. It consists of pre-course online learning, and two days of face to face training. It explores diabetic retinopathy in depth, and provides students with an extensive understanding of how this condition is classified.
The teaching is provided by Gloucestershire Research & Education Group and participants will receive an in-house certificate from the Gloucestershire Research & Education Group, on successful completion.
GREG (Gloucestershire Research & Education Group): Advanced Grading in Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)
19 November 2024
-20 November 2024
This course has been designed to develop students’ knowledge further in the intricacies of diabetic retinopathy grading, to include ROG and arbitration. It consists of two days face-to-face training. We include lectures exploring patients with more complex needs and non-routine pathology. The course provides the grader with the opportunity to make clinical decisions and discuss outcomes.
The teaching is provided by Gloucestershire Research & Education Group and participants will receive an in-house certificate from the Gloucestershire Research & Education Group, on successful completion.
Correlation between aqueous flare and macular microvascular status in diabetes mellitus
7 April 2021
| Sofia Rokerya
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Aqueous flare, Diabetic retinopathy, Inflammation, Laser flare-cell meter, Microvascular injury, Optic coherence tomography angiography
The authors report a cross-sectional study which was conducted to investigate the correlation between aqueous flare and macular microvascular status, assessed by optic coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in diabetes mellitus. Fifty-two diabetic patients with non-proliferative retinopathy, 44 diabetic patients without...
A to Z of X-linked retinopathies
5 August 2022
| Zhihang Cheng
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This review article provides an excellent summary of X-linked retinopathies and the corresponding genotype and clinical features. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of each condition in terms of its pathogenesis, clinical features, imaging findings, electrophysiology changes and any current...
ESASO Course Series (Volume 2): Surgical Retina
This book comprises details of symposia / seminars on surgical aspects of retina presented by renowned authorities in ophthalmology from all over the world during ESASOS (European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology) academic activities, which are mentioned in a...Sickle cell eye disease: an overview of vitreoretinal complications and their surgical management
1 December 2016
| Antonio Berarducci, Tom Williamson
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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...
Association between serum triglycerides and pan retinal photocoagulation in type 1 diabetes
1 December 2013
| Khadijah Basheer
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Glaucoma
This retrospective cohort study aimed to examine whether dyslipidaemia is a risk factor for progressing to proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and consequently requiring pan retinal photocoagulation (PRP) treatment in type 1 diabetics. In previous studies including the ETDRS study an...
Two illustrative cases of AZOOR
1 February 2019
| Claire Howard
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy, autofluorescence, ellipsoid zone, enlarged blind spot
The authors present two illustrative cases of acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR) which causes acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement. The disease is characterised by sudden loss of outer retinal function associated with photopsia, with minimal or no fundoscopic changes...
Microvascular disease in Alport syndrome
2 December 2019
| Patty Mopamboli Mboli
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Alport syndrome, Hypertension, microvascular disease
The authors present the findings of a retrospective case-control observational study on increased microvascular disease in individuals with Alport syndrome recruited over a 21-year period. They recruited 28 males and 28 females with X-linked Alport syndrome (XLAS) and eight men...
Nicotine accelerates diabetes induced retinal changes
1 June 2015
| Khadijah Basheer
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Diabetes, SD-OCT, SLO, neurons, nicotine, retinal thickness
This study investigated the influence of nicotine in an experimentally induced diabetic rat model. They used non-invasive high-resolution spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) imaging to provide quantitative information on the temporal alterations of retinal structures at the micrometer resolution...
Addressing medical risk factors for diabetes and understanding the new systemic treatments
1 February 2014
| Samantha S Mann
As global diabetes figures continue to rise, the importance of reducing the burden of macrovascular and microvascular complications of diabetes has never been so great. By 2025 it is estimated that five million people in the UK will have diabetes...
Handbook of Retinal Disease: a case based approach
1 August 2016
| Sofia Rokerya
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This book is suitable for all doctors, particularly ophthalmologists, who want to further their knowledge and understanding of retinal pathologies and keep up to date. The case-based format is effective in evoking an interactive approach to differential diagnosis. The tabulation...