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Pupil responses in diabetes
4 February 2021
| Claire Howard
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Diabetes mellitus, Diabetic retinopathy, dynamic pupillometry, pupil diameter, static pupillometry
This study aimed to investigate pupillary involvement in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and to evaluate any relationship between severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and pupillary responses. Participants included 133 individuals in four groups: proliferative DR (n=21), non-proliferative...
NEOS (North Of England Ophthalmological Society) Spring Meeting 2024
23 April 2024
by Matthew Hartley, Trainee, Northern Deanery, UK. In NEOS’ 110th year, the spring meeting was held in Doncaster and centred around ocular oncology and vitreoretinal surgery. The meeting hosts, Umi Harley and Steve Winder from Royal Hallamshire Hospital, arranged a...
Visual snow syndrome: a review
11 January 2024
| Ivan Yip
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
Visual snow syndrome (VSS) is a neurological condition characterised by visual phenomena described as dots moving across the visual field. Other visual symptoms can take the form of palinopsia, entopic phenomena, photophobia and nyctalopia. Tinnitus and migraine can be commonly...
Hospital wins funding to investigate sickle cell sight loss.
12 July 2023
The hospital trust is the first in the UK to lead on a research project to understand the impact of sickle cell disease on eyesight.
Prognostic information for PRP-naive patients
1 February 2015
| Saruban Pasu
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
The Diabetic Retinopathy Study group demonstrated that pan retinal laser photocoagulation (PRP) reduces severe vision loss by up to 50% in cases of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). The authors of this current study aimed to provide information for laser naive...
Episcleral brachytherapy (EB) for retinoblastoma (RB)
5 June 2020
| Jonathan Chan
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Ocular Pathology and Oncology
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episcleral brachytherapy, focal consolidation therapy, ocular survival, recurrence-free survival, retinoblastoma
This retrospective study consisted of 11 eyes treated either with Iodine (I) -125 or Ruthenium (R) -106EB with a mean apical dose of 44Gy. There were five in group B (46%), three in group C (27%) and three in group...
International variations in ROP treatment
1 August 2018
| Jonathan Chan
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Child health (paediatrics), Epidemiology, Retina
A retrospective cohort review of 48,087 premature infants weighing <1500 gm between 24 to 27 weeks gestation, from 11 high income countries in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, Israel, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tuscany (Italy) and the UK . By...
ROP ocular outcomes after Bevacizumab treatment
1 October 2017
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Biometry, intravitreal injection, refraction, retinopathy of prematurity
The relationship between refractive outcomes and biometric parameters were evaluated following intravitreal Bevacizumab (IVB) monotherapy. Sixty-three infants were grouped into 1) infants treated with VB monotherapy for ROP (six with zone 1 and eight with posterior zone II retinopathy of...
A case series of acute visual loss following excessive alcohol and / or drug use
1 August 2015
| Claire Howard
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Ophthalmoplegia, retinal artery occlusion, saturday night retinopathy
This study presents three cases of so called Saturday night retinopathy, an acute visual loss following intravenous drug abuse and stupor, leading to continuous pressure on the orbit while asleep. All three cases presented with acute vision loss and had...
Screening for ROP using wide-angle digital retinal photography by non-ophthalmologists
1 August 2015
| Jonathan Chan
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Diagnostic Tests/Investigation, Retina, Telemedicine
This is a systematic review article to evaluate the accuracy of digital retinal photography (DRP) performed by trained personnel (non-ophthalmologists) in diagnosing clinically significant retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). The authors used search engines including Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Cochrane databases....