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Microvascular disease in Alport syndrome
2 December 2019
| Patty Mopamboli Mboli
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Alport syndrome, Hypertension, microvascular disease
The authors present the findings of a retrospective case-control observational study on increased microvascular disease in individuals with Alport syndrome recruited over a 21-year period. They recruited 28 males and 28 females with X-linked Alport syndrome (XLAS) and eight men...
Literature review of isolated ocular motor nerve palsies
1 June 2015
| Claire Howard
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Abducens, cranial nerve, microvascular ischaemia, oculomoto, trochlear
Patients aged over 50 presenting with isolated nerve palsies of the third (pupil sparring), fourth or sixth nerves, are often described as having microvascular extraocular palsies. This review looks critically at the evidence surrounding these microvascular non-arteritic extraocular palsies and...
Control of bleeding with diabetic vitrectomy under air
1 August 2019
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Air-perfused membrane dissection, fibrovascular membrane, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, vitrectomy
The authors describe a modified diabetic vitrectomy using continuous air infusion in diabetic eyes with severe fibrovascular proliferation. In their case series of 25 eyes (20 patients), intravitreal bevacizumab (1.25mg) was used one week prior to surgery. Fifteen eyes had...
Management and outcomes of congenital fibrovascular pupillary membranes (CFPM)
5 April 2022
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
Congenital fibrovascular pupillary membranes (CFPM) is defined as a white fibrous membrane across the pupil which may be an ectopic iris tissue arising from the aberrant migration of neural crest cells or a variant of persistent fetal vasculature. The authors...
Assessing everyday visual function in dry AMD – what matters to the person?
1 April 2019
| Bethany E Higgins, Deanna J Taylor, David P Crabb (Prof)
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, AMD, Ophthalmology, Optometry
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the primary cause of blindness in the developed world and is accountable for more than one half of sight impairment registrations within England and Wales [1]. AMD is prevalent in people aged 60 years and...
OCT angiography sign after whiplash
7 December 2020
| Annes Ahmeidat
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Berlin’s oedema is a rare condition following blunt ocular injury and a rare finding after whiplash injury. This case describes a 48-year-old male who suffered a seventh vertebrae fracture from a traffic accident. Two days later, decreased left eye visual...
FAZ measurement on OCTA
1 February 2018
| Saruban Pasu
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This paper aimed to test the AngioVue OCTAs reproducibility and interoperator concordance in evaluating the size of the foveal avascular zone (FAZ). The authors also investigated how the FAZs representation on the OCTA varied after metabolic activity. The right eye...
Update on emerging therapies for age-related macular degeneration
4 December 2023
| Rod McNeil
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AMD
The 23rd European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA) Congress, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, provided a timely update on anti-complement therapy for geographic atrophy and emerging investigational therapies for neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Anti-complement therapy for geographic atrophy Geographic atrophy...