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Contrast sensitivity in myopic eyes
3 June 2024
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
A classification system has been proposed for myopic maculopathy: grade 0 (no myopic retinal lesions), grade 1 (tessellated fundus), grade 2 (diffuse chorioretinal atrophy (CRA)), grade 3 (patchy CRA), and grade 4 (macular atrophy). Tessellated fundus is defined as the...
Myopic choroidal neovascularisation
1 August 2015
| Jonathan Chan
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Neovascularisation, Retina, Treatment Medical
This is a review article summarising the latest myopic CNV (choroidal neovascularisation) literature in the clinical experience and management outcomes for recommendation algorithm. The aetiology of the myopic CNV was discussed by the authors under the heading of the heredo-degenerative...
Beware the disc in myopic patients
1 August 2018
| Eulee Seow
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Glaucoma
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Heidelberg Retina Tomograph, ISNT rule, Retina nerve fiber layer, myopia - glaucoma, neuroretinal rim area, spectral domain-OCT
Glaucoma is a chronic and progressive optic neuropathy characterised by damage of retinal ganglion cells. Evaluation of structural damage of the optic nerve is important in glaucoma diagnosis. The ISNT rule states that the neuroretinal rim width is generally widest...
Surgery for myopic esotropia
1 October 2019
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors report a modified Jenson procedure for the treatment of high axial myopic esotropia. Their study includes 15 eyes of 13 patients with a mean age of 50±10.4 years. Mean spherical refraction was -22.53±6.06 dioptres. Mean axial length was...
Fluorescein angiography and OCT in myopic CNV
1 December 2014
| Bheemanagouda Patil
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Fluorescein angiography (FA) and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) are the most common examinations used in the management of anti-VEGF therapy in choroidal neovascularisation (CNV). In comparison to FA, OCT provides a noninvasive evaluation of the macula. Myopic CNV are...
Progression of myopic maculopathy after treatment
1 October 2014
| Sofia Rokerya
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
The authors report on a retrospective study carried out to evaluate long-term progression of myopic maculopathy and functional outcome in eyes treated for myopic choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) and in eyes without CNV. Fifty-four myopic eyes of 30 patients were included...
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...
Retreatment of myopic LASIK with femtosecond and custom ablation
1 October 2017
| Mrinal Rana
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Enhancement, laser in situ keratomeliusis, vision correction
The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors for retreatment post laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK). A retrospective chart review was carried out for a four-year period and all patients who had undergone LASIK at the Boston...
Surgery for myopic strabismus
1 August 2019
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Heavy eye syndrome, muscle belly union, surgical technique
The outcomes are reported of muscle belly union technique with medial rectus recession for cases with restriction according to the results of intraoperative forced duction testing (FDT). Surgery involved isolation of the lateral and superior recti muscles, which were separated,...
Silicone band loop myopexy as surgical treatment of myopic strabismus fixus in children
3 October 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This study reports the outcomes of silicone band loop myopexy in a case series of seven children (10 eyes) with myopic strabismus fixus. There were five males and two females with a median age of five years (range 3–11). Six...
Silicone band loop myopexy in the treatment of myopic strabismus fixus
This is a retrospective case series of chart review of patients who had silicone band loop myopexy between January 2008 to December 2012 for myopic strabismus fixus (MSF) at a tertiary eye centre in India. A minimum period of two...Dramatic myopic shift due to epithelial basement membrane dystrophy
3 October 2024
| Annes Ahmeidat, Blazej Staniszewski, James Welch
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
Epithelial basement membrane dystrophy (EBMD), also known as map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy, is a common anterior corneal disorder affecting approximately 2% of the population [1]. It is characterised by the abnormal maintenance of the basement membrane, resulting in protrusions into the epithelium....