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Allergic conjunctivitis evaluation by thermography
1 August 2014
| Bheemanagouda Patil
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
Thermography is a non-invasive imaging technique, which uses infrared radiation reflected from an object to estimate the temperature of the object. This paper evaluates the use of thermography to assess allergic conjunctivitis objectively, by using an instrument called ocular surface...
5-FU in cicatricial conjunctivitis
This is a retrospective review of 56 patients with cicatricial conjunctivitis, including 25 eyes that received sub-conjunctival injections of 25-50mg of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) as part of their treatment. Thirty-seven patients had ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP) and 19 had Stevens-Johnson syndrome...Sexually transmitted conjunctivitis – the REALLY sticky eye
Let’s face it, patients with conjunctivitis don’t always produce the most stimulating consultations and most of the time we can manage them in auto-pilot. The prospect of delving into such a patient’s sexual history is not overly appealing, but this...Care providers view on how to improve care for paediatric conjunctivitis
3 August 2023
| Lauren R Hepworth
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors present a qualitative study. Purposeful sampling was used to recruit physicians or advanced practitioners for paediatric care in emergency, urgent or primary care settings. Semi-structured interviews were either held in-person or by telephone. All participants recruited commonly encountered...
Improved quality of life in children with allergic conjunctivitis and their parents with anti-allergic therapy
3 April 2024
| Lucy Osborne
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This prospective intervention study investigated the change in quality of life in child-parent pairs with allergic conjunctivitis (AC) on anti-allergic therapy. From September 2020 to May 2021, AC child-parent pairs and healthy child-parent pairs were recruited in Guangzhou, China. Children...
Viral conjunctivitis and COVID-19
23 March 2020
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COVID-19
A joint statement was released by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and College of Optometrists on 19 March.
First systematic review of COVID-19 colonisation of ocular tissues and secretions
5 October 2020
| Hadi Ziaei
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
The authors present the first systematic review summarising all the data regarding SARS-CoV-2 colonisation of ocular and periocular tissues and secretions. They reviewed all publications between December 2019 to April 2020 in the Cochrane Library, Medline, World of Science and...
Glaucoma medications and ocular surface disease
3 August 2023
| Su Young
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Glaucoma
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Drug allergy, OSD, drug toxicity, drug-induced cicatricial keratitis, dry eye, glaucoma medications, ocular surface disease
This literature review examined ocular surface disease (OSD) associated with glaucoma medication. The authors examined the prevalence of features and management guidelines glaucoma medication associated OSD. Fifty-eight articles published within the past five years are included in this review and...
What's trending Jun/Jul 2020
5 June 2020
| Stephanie Chiu
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Ophthalmology, Emergency Ophthalmology, Cornea / External Eye Disease, COVID-19
Here in the UK, we’ve been in lockdown since 23 March 2020, with much of the rest of the world entering degrees of lockdown since February-March 2020. COVID-19 has dominated the headlines and social media, so without further ado, I...
Quiz Jun/Jul 2024
3 June 2024
| Christopher Bell, Naomi Kamanga, Ankur Raj
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Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Ophthalmology, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
History A one-year-old girl originally presented with a red eye, initially bilaterally and later in the left only. On examination a membrane was found on the tarsal conjunctiva of the upper eyelid (Figure 1). Figure 1: Anterior segment. Serum plasminogen...
Resurfacing the ocular surface
1 April 2016
| Harminder Dua (Prof)
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
The ocular surface (OS) is an anatomical and functional unit made of the tear film, the conjunctival, limbal and corneal epithelium, the lacrimal, mucous and meibomian glands and the lids and blink reflex. The tear film is composed of a...
Oral omega-3 fatty acid treatment for dry eye in contact lens wearers
1 June 2015
| Sharmina Khan
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
This study evaluates the effect of dietary omega-3 fatty acid supplementation of dry eye symptoms, tear film tests, and conjunctival impression cytology in patients with contact lens wear-associated dry eye. In this randomised double-blind, multi-centred trial, contact lens wearers (n=...