British Journal of Ophthalmology

Biomarker changes of choroidal architecture preceding myopia onset in Chinese school children: a 3-year prospective cohort study

Background/aims To characterise the temporal dynamics of choroidal changes relative to myopia onset and determine their ...
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Incidence and treatment patterns of acute retinal necrosis: a nationwide population-based cohort study

Aims To quantify nationwide incidence and contemporary treatment patterns of acute retinal necrosis (ARN). Methods ...
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Trends in follow-up visits and visual acuity gain in infectious keratitis: report from a tertiary eye care centre

Background Infectious keratitis (IK) is a leading cause of corneal blindness globally. While treatment can limit infection-related complications, the timeline and predictors of visual recovery in IK ...
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Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database study of cataract surgery: report 6. The impact of EyeSi virtual reality training on complications rates of ...

Objective To investigate the impact of EyeSi surgical simulators on posterior capsule rupture (PCR) rates of cataract surgery performed by first and second year trainee surgeons. Design A Royal ...
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Diurnal IOP control with bimatoprost versus latanoprost in exfoliative glaucoma: a crossover, observer-masked, three-centre study

Aim: To evaluate the diurnal intraocular pressure (IOP) control and safety of bimatoprost versus latanoprost in exfoliative glaucoma (XFG). Methods: One eye of 129 consecutive patients with XFG (mean ...
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OCT for glaucoma diagnosis, screening and detection of glaucoma progression

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a commonly used imaging modality in the evaluation of glaucomatous damage. The commercially available spectral domain (SD)-OCT offers benefits in glaucoma ...
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The estimated prevalence and incidence of late stage age related macular degeneration in the UK

Aims To estimate prevalence, number and incidence of AMD by type in the UK population aged ≥50 years. Methods Age-specific prevalence rates of AMD obtained from a Bayesian meta-analysis of AMD ...
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Painful blind eye: efficacy of enucleation and evisceration in resolving ocular pain

AIMS To assess the effectiveness of enucleation or evisceration in relieving pain from painful blind eyes. METHODS 24 patients with intractable ocular pain underwent enucleation or evisceration with ...
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The number of people with glaucoma worldwide in 2010 and 2020

Aim: To estimate the number of people with open angle (OAG) and angle closure glaucoma (ACG) in 2010 and 2020. Methods: A review of published data with use of prevalence models. Data from population ...
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Surgical outcome and risk stratification for primary retinal detachment repair: results from the Scottish Retinal Detachment study

Objectives To report the early surgical outcome, risk of failure and predictive value of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) classification based on all participants in the Scottish Retinal ...
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Prevalence of glaucoma in the Australian National Eye Health Survey

Methods This was a population-based study of 3098 non-Indigenous Australians (50–98 years) and 1738 Indigenous Australians (40–92 years) stratified by remoteness. Each participant underwent a standard ...
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Azithromycin for ocular toxoplasmosis

Department of Ophthalmology, FC Donders Institute, Academic Hospital Utrecht, Netherlands Aniki Rothova, MD, F C Donders Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Hospital Utrecht, PO Box 85 ...