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RPE tears after intravitreal Lucentis
1 February 2017
| Saruban Pasu
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
The current hypothesis regarding retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tears is the contraction and fibrosis in choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) tissue after anti-VEGF therapy can induce rips in the overlying RPE. This South Korean study aimed to identify the association between RPE...
Trabeculectomy for normal tension glaucoma
This is a retrospective consecutive, non-comparative case series of 131 eyes of 98 patients undergoing trabeculectomy between 2007 and 2013 in a normal tension glaucoma (NTG) clinic. Assessment of the clinical outcomes include intraocular pressures (IOP) reduction, bleb formation, final...OCT angiography and retinal vein occlusions
1 April 2016
| Efrosini Papagiannuli
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
In this retrospective, observational case series, the authors set out to evaluate the morphology of the superficial and deep capillary plexa of eyes that suffered a retinal vein occlusion (RVO) on OCT angiography (OCTA) and compare the findings with fluorescein...
How does cataract surgery affect eyes with wet AMD?
1 October 2015
| Efrosini Papagiannuli
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Cataract and Refractive
In this retrospective cohort study the authors’ primary objective was to assess whether cataract surgery in eyes with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), triggered its progression. The surgical group comprised of 40 eyes versus 42 eyes in the non-surgical control...
Efficacy and safety of intravitreal aflibercept injection in wet age-related macular degeneration
1 June 2015
| Jonathan Chan
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Angiogenesis, Clinical Trial, Macula, neovascularisation, Retina
This is a sub-group study of double masked review of patients randomised to different dosages and treatment frequency compared between aflibercept and ranibizumab treatment. This is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intravitreal aflibercept (IVT-AFL) in Japanese patients with...
Intravitreal ranibizumab for the treatment of myopic CNV
1 April 2015
| Sofia Rokerya
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
The authors conducted a prospective study. Sixty-four patients (65 eyes) attended the 12-month follow-up examination. The mean patient age was 47.8 years. Fifty-five patients (86.0%) were females. All patients had pathologic myopia (a spherical equivalent of more than − 6.0...
Ophthalmology history and examination – a guide for medical students
*First author Students have very little exposure to ophthalmology during their years at medical school. Teaching consists of a handful of lectures followed by a short placement in which students are expected to practise histories and examinations on patients with...RPTP-σ increases pro-MMP activity in a trabecular meshwork cell line following oxidative stress conditions
1 February 2016
| Wai Siene Ng
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Glaucoma
This study aims to outline the role of phosphatases in the aqueous drainage system by overexpressing receptor tyrosine phosphatase sigma (RPTP-σ) in a human normal trabecular meshwork cell line and describing its effect on subtypes of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) and...
William’s syndrome
1 February 2015
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
William’s syndrome is a congenital multisystem disorder involving the cardiovascular, connective tissue and central nervous systems. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency and severity of ophthalmic manifestations and associated diseases as well as provide epidemiology data...
Illuminating task lighting
1 October 2019
| Janet Pooley
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Optometry
Good lighting is always important but especially for patients who are visually impaired. Janet Pooley provides an overview. We tend to discuss lighting with patients when their vision is reduced, and where we are considering higher reading adds or low...
Apr/May 2014 Quiz 2
1 April 2014
| Konstantinos Balaskas
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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
History A 29-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a two week history of floaters and patchy peripheral visual field loss in the left eye (LE). She had no relevant medical history and she was not on any current...
Retinal arteriovenous malformation
1 June 2018
| Alexandr Stepanov
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
A 24-year-old Caucasian girl reported to the eye clinic with the complaint of painless decreased vision in her right eye. She had no history of infectious disease, trauma, systemic malignancy or other systemic complaint. Her best corrected visual acuity was...