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Understanding and confronting bacterial endophthalmitis

2 December 2019 | | Ophthalmology, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Abdus Samad Ansari highlights the importance of early recognition of this condition using an unusual presentation. Endophthalmitis is a medical emergency with devastating consequences. Despite adequate treatment, severe cases frequently result in permanent blindness. Endophthalmitis involves inflammation of both the...

Well-presented scholarly research work will reduce chances of journal rebuttal

1 April 2018 | | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Submitting to an academic journal? Are you aware of the requirements and constraints of relevant copyright laws? Rod McNeil provides a guide for aspiring authors. Getting published in peer-reviewed academic and medical journals is not easy. But careful attention to...

Educational concerns and anxiety levels amongst ophthalmology trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic

5 June 2020 | | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, COVID-19, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
How concerned are ophthalmology trainees about the present impact and the future consequences of suspended ophthalmic training programmes? Researchers in the West of Scotland investigate. Anxiety, stress and the longer-term stress reaction of burnout often go unrecognised, yet are known...

Designing ophthalmology services - Part 1: How do we address the queues in a clinic?

23 January 2020 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
This first of a three-part series shows how systems engineering can be used to correctly diagnose and address the causes of delays in a clinic. The second article, which will be featured in the April/May 2020 issue, describes how to...

In conversation with Andy Pyott

4 October 2023 | | Ophthalmology
Discussing a detour into ophthalmology from zoology in 1988, experiences in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Europe and the National Treatment Centre – Highland, Baljean Dhillon interviews his newest guest on the Eye Views podcast, Andy Pyott. Take us back to...

Prevalence of acute anterior uveitis in diabetic patients attending diabetic eye disease clinics

5 April 2022 | | Ophthalmology, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
The authors share their investigation at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital into the association between diabetes and AAU. The global prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) is rapidly rising from an estimated 9.3% in 2019 to 10.2% by 2030 [1]. The link...

Addressing medical risk factors for diabetes and understanding the new systemic treatments

1 February 2014 |
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...

100 years of insulin

3 October 2022 | | Ophthalmology
*Joint first authors The centenary of the discovery of insulin is a time to celebrate one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th century. Background Before 1923, Type 1 diabetes mellitus [T1DM] resulted in death from severe ketoacidosis...

RCOphth Annual Congress - Day 2

24 May 2022 |
Follow all the key updates from the RCOphth Annual Congress 2022, live.

WATCH: Novel imaging technology reveals role of immune cells in early diabetic cataract development

6 June 2023 | cataract, diabetic cataract, research
In this video interview, Proffessor Ali Hafezi-Moghadam and Professor Dr. Christoph Rußmann discuss their findings on the role of immune cells in early diabetic cataract development.

Ophthalmology survey results August/September 2019

1 August 2019 | | Ophthalmology, Cataract and Refractive
I am delighted to see another great response to the practice variance survey. I am extremely grateful to all of you who took part and would encourage those of you who didn’t to try this survey. It literally takes mere...

Myasthenia Gravis Masquerading as a Third Cranial Nerve Palsy

1 February 2014 |
A 65-year-old man presented with a week’s history of binocular diplopia (in all directions of gaze) and a right partial ptosis. He was systemically well. His past medical history was unremarkable except for vitiligo. At presentation acuity was 6/6 bilaterally....