The 2018 Save Sight Society conference opened with a hustle and bustle of registration as more than 100 attendees, including ophthalmologists, optometrists and ophthalmic nurses, had made the trip to Nelson tempted by the conference theme, Challenging Eye Care: Beyond Major Urban Centres.
Snowvision, a boutique fundraising conference which aims to send two Kiwi optometrists each year to study at the State University of New York (SUNY), is organised biennially by myself and Hamish Caithness, who look after the speakers’ programme, and Catherine Small, Dave Robinson and Kim Taylor, who
People come from all over to see the biggest tourist attraction in Auckland. Paris has a tower, San Francisco has a bridge, Auckland has an old sewage tank. Down under the ground you go, and for 30, 40 dollars you get to take a good old look around. Of course, it’s a bit more than a sewage tank. It
A Washington University School of Medicine study published in JAMA Ophthalmology suggests patients with preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) have retinal microvascular alterations detectable by
Relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) is one of the more important clinical signs in neuro-ophthalmic examination. Quite often its presence is the only objective sign of unilateral or asymmetric
A pterygium is a common benign ocular surface growth. It typically starts on the nasal conjunctiva close to the limbus as a pinkish, triangular tissue growth and extends across the cornea. The cornea
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 characteristic of dry eye disease (DED) is the presence of inflammation, a significant driving factor of the vicious circle that is DED. TFOS second dry eye workshop (TFOS DEWS II) aptly described this process as being initiated by evaporative water loss leading to hyperosmolar tissue damage. This
It’s become clear, as our knowledge has evolved, that dry eye management, if performed thoroughly, cannot be squeezed into a normal examination as part of a standard eye examination. You wouldn’t expect to perform a full glaucoma work-up within a standard eye examination and neither should you expec
Deficiency in tear film quality and quantity are often considered key defining characteristics of dry eye disease (DED). The complex, dynamic multi-component structure, which comprises an underlying aqueous-mucous layer and a superficial lipid layer, synergistically maintains ocular surface homeosta
The modern workplace is a hostile environment for a dry eye sufferer. Computer use decreases blink frequency and completeness, leading to lipid layer breakdown and increased aqueous tear evaporation, while air-conditioned office environments frequently further aggravate the disrupted tear film.
Over the year there’s been a strong team of individuals working under the Ocular Surface Laboratory (OSL) banner. We look at some of what's been happening.