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Nanosecond laser cataract surgery

2 December 2019 | | Cataract and Refractive, Ophthalmology
The authors review the evidence for nanosecond laser cataract surgery: is this the future? Cataract is a leading cause of visual impairment worldwide, and cataract surgery is one of the most successful and cost-effective healthcare interventions, with a great impact...

Patients use their own blood to treat dry eye symptoms

1 April 2020 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry, Cornea / External Eye Disease
Simerdip Kaur takes a look at the latest ophthalmology-related news stories and asks which are based on facts and which are ‘fake news’? Headline: Patients use their own blood to treat dry eye symptoms Grossman first described the technique of...

The results of the last survey Dec20

7 December 2020 | | Ophthalmology, Cataract and Refractive
The responses to the first question in this survey demonstrate the need for it and the significant variation in practice we see in even relatively simple management decisions. Patients are seen regularly with occludable drainage angles and listed for YAG...

“Herr Doktor, I can’t see but I am driving”

1 February 2018 | | Ophthalmology, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This 56-year-old lady was quite puzzling. With her own glasses and the pinhole she merely managed to see the 1.3 and 1.0 logMAR lines with her right and left eye, respectively (I am currently working in Germany again, so goodbye...

The management of chronic uveitis

1 October 2015 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
A 40-year-old company executive is referred from another unit with recurrent anterior and posterior uveitis for 12 months and the inflammatory markers are raised. Review of systems This is a case of chronic uveitis which needs a thorough workup and...

Happy hour

3 August 2023 |
Welcome Eye News Aug/Sep 2023, your bi-monthly tonic for a much-needed happy hour. In the current climate of challenge across all fronts, there’s no better time to reach out for the professional equivalent of a cheery cup in the company...

What’s Eating Gilbert Pete

2 August 2022 | | Ophthalmology
“Please phone Mr C Lyon ASAP on 0131 334 9171” This was a message from my secretary waiting for me on my computer one morning shortly after I was appointed a consultant. The name did not ring any bells but...

Preparing for modern ophthalmic surgical training as a trainee

9 December 2022 | Ophthalmology, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
As a trainee in ophthalmology, every day you are learning more and more about the specialty. In addition, you will most likely be exploring the vast array of subspecialties that ophthalmology has to offer, and would probably be trying to...

Falkirk girl with sight loss is World Book Day winner

2 May 2024 | RNIB, Scotland, Charity, sight loss, awareness, competition, braille, see differently, creativity, school
Grace Kidd, 9, from Falkirk, is the winner of a creative writing competition hosted for the first time by leading sight loss charity, RNIB, to mark World Book Day.

Analysis of ‘urgent’ cataract referrals from community optometrists in the West of Scotland

3 June 2021 | | Ophthalmology, Cataract and Refractive, Optometry, COVID-19
As elective cataract services restart post-COVID, how do we establish which patients should be a priority? The authors share their findings from a review of ‘urgent’ referrals received by the ophthalmology department in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. The COVID-19...

Sickle cell eye disease: an overview of vitreoretinal complications and their surgical management

1 December 2016 | | 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...

Redeployment during the COVID-19 pandemic: personal accounts from four ophthalmology trainees

5 August 2020 | | Ophthalmology
We once believed that the coronavirus would not penetrate the safe confines of the United Kingdom, like so many outbreaks before this. Once the news came that this pandemic descended into our hospitals, the anxieties about redeployment began. Many of...