The latest issue of Ophthalmology, the fifth edition, authored and re-edited by those doyens of ophthalmology, Drs Myron Yanoff and Jay Duker, is a beautifully written, comprehensive textbook with a clear clinical focus. In one substantial text, it covers the majority of ophthalmic conditions and pr
Low-concentration atropine for myopia progression (LAMP) study; Environmental risk factors and myopia incidence in six to nine-year-olds; Myopia: is the nature-nurture debate finally over?
The role of OCT in differentiating optic disc drusen from oedema; Multimodal imaging of buried optic nerve head drusen; A population-based evaluation of the association between hormonal contraceptives and idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Choice of primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment repair method in US commercially insured and Medicare Advantage patients, 2003-2016; Long-term safety and efficacy of limited vitrectomy for vision-degrading vitreopathy resulting from vitreous floaters; Five-year outcomes of pan-retinal photocoagu
Risk factors associated with missed diagnosis of narrow angles by Van Herick technique; Transscleral Diode Laser Cyclophotocoagulation: A comparison of slow coagulation and standard coagulation techniques; Clear lens extraction for the management of primary angle closure glaucoma: surgical technique
Sub-macular haemorrhage in neovascular AMD; Prophylactic treatment of retinal breaks; Ultrastructural and histopathologic findings after pars plana vitrectomy with a new hypersonic vitrector system
Phase II randomised, double-masked, vehicle-controlled trial of recombinant human nerve growth factor for neurotrophic keratitisBonini et al.Ophthalmology. 2018;125:1332-43Neurotrophic keratitis (NK)
Quantitative analysis of vitreous inflammation using OCT in patients receiving sub-Tenon's triamcinolone acetonide for uveitic cystoid macular oedema; Comparing OCT findings in different aetiologies of infectious necrotising retinitis; Choroidal neovascularisation on OCTA in punctate inner choroidop
A study published in Clinical Ophthalmology suggests a single application of self-retained cryopreserved amniotic membrane (CAM) can speed corneal surface recovery and help reduce symptoms of dry eye
Phase I clinical study of an embryonic stem cell–derived retinal pigment epithelium patch; Transplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells in macular degeneration; The 2016 American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS registry database
Systemic medication associations with presumed advanced or uncontrolled POAG; A small disc area is a risk factor for visual field progression in POAG: The Glaucoma Stereo Analysis Study; Use of optical coherence tomography by non-expert personnel as a screening approach for glaucoma
Visual recovery after retinal detachment with macula-off: is surgery in the first 72h better? Frings A, Markau N, Katz T et alBritish Journal of Ophthalmology. 2016;100:1466 -1469Unlike macula-on
