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5 February 2020 | Emma Carroll | 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

#gbhockey #samward #sight Great Britain Hockey player Sam Ward, described as one of the “deadliest attackers in world hockey” [1], sustained a sight-threatening injury after being struck in the face by a ball during the Olympic qualifying match against Malaysia...

Strabismus in thyroid eye disease

1 April 2017 | Richard Harrad | Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus

Pathogenesis Thyroid eye disease (TED) is an auto-immune condition, in the initial phase there is lymphocytic infiltration and oedema of the extraocular muscles with deposition of glycosaminoglycans and hyaluronic acid and adipogenesis, which can lead to an increase in the...

In conversation with Professor Bernie Chang, President, Royal College of Ophthalmologists

6 April 2021 | Bernie Chang (Prof) | Ophthalmology, Oculoplastics, COVID-19

Congratulations on your appointment as RCOphth President in May last year. COVID-19 hit just before your presidency started. This must have been an incredibly challenging time to take the reins. How has the College risen to the challenges? Thank you....

Things I’d tell my medical school self, had I known my first year on the job would be during a global pandemic

5 June 2020 | Nikolaos Tzoumas | Ophthalmology, COVID-19

In a conversation with his younger self, a foundation doctor reflects on the contrast between his expectations of medicine at university and the reality of working during the coronavirus pandemic. Every doctor arrives at medical school with nervous anticipation, yet...

Pete’s day off

2 February 2024 | Peter Cackett | Ophthalmology

“You’re not dying. You just can’t think of anything good to do” The above is the explanation given by high school student Ferris to his friend Cameron, who is lying in bed feeling sorry for himself when he should be...

Part 1: good news, bad news at the international conference

3 June 2024 | Peter Cackett | Ophthalmology

One of my favourite comic strips from my childhood was Good News, Bad News which ran in Jackpot comic from 1979–1982. In this strip, the story for the main character would be described in a series of alternating ‘Good News’...

A missed intraocular telescope – an opportunity to re-focus the evidence

4 February 2021 | Hani Hasan, Jennifer McMahon, Guy Smith | Ophthalmology, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, Imaging

Intraocular telescopes allow magnification of the image so that it would be projected into a larger area of the macula, this makes the central defect caused by dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) smaller. The most common approach is a Galilean...

Principles of contact lens fitting in keratoconus

1 December 2015 | Inderpaul S Sian, Nabil Habib (Prof) | Cataract and Refractive

Keratoconus is an ectatic condition of the cornea characterised by progressive conical distortion with irregular astigmatism, myopia and apical protrusion. Most cases progress slowly resulting in varying degrees of myopic astigmatism. Management of keratoconus includes spectacles, soft contact lenses, a...

The management of antiplatelets and anticoagulation in elective ophthalmic surgery

1 April 2016 | Lee Teak Tan, Jonathan Norris, Bernard Prendergast | Orbit, Oculoplastics

Clinical scenario: A 57-year-old gentleman who is scheduled to have Mohs micrographic surgery and reconstruction for a medial canthal basel cell carcinoma (BCC) has been started on aspirin and clopidogrel following a coronary stent three weeks ago. Does the antiplatelet...

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