Patients who have undergone prior intravitreal therapy (pIVT) have an increased risk of intraoperative complication (IC) during cataract surgery, according to a large Swedish study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
A study of 170 Dutch youths aged 0-18 years with newly diagnosed brain tumour revealed abnormal ophthalmological findings in 78.8%, while 65.2% without visual symptoms at diagnosis had ophthalmological abnormalities on examination.
A University of Auckland-developed artificial intelligence (AI) project will be able to train medical students to be more empathetic and patient-focused, according to its developer.
A former dispensing optician, Juliet Ware is Auckland’s only ophthalmic electrodiagnostic technician working in the public healthcare setting. She is based in Greenlane Clinical Centre’s ophthalmology
Researchers in Singapore said they achieved good diagnostic performance for detection of gonioscopic angle closure by teaming a deep learning algorithm (DLA) with 360° swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT).
Spanish researchers found trabeculectomy more effectively reduced intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with open-angle glaucoma (OAG) than Allergan’s Xen45 gel stent over three years. The study,
An Australian study found the incidence of falls among over-65s decreased from an average 0.81 falls per year after first-eye cataract surgery to 0.32 falls per year after second-eye cataract
The winner of Haag-Streit’s slit lamp imaging competition is Utpal Sarkar from Disha Eye Hospitals Barrackpore in Kolkata, India with his image ‘Spherophakia’. Selected from 168 high-calibre
Virtual clinics for glaucoma care – patients’ and clinicians’ experiences and perceptions: a qualitative evaluation Gunn J, Marks J, Au L, et al Eye (2022) 36:209-218
A multi-centre prospective trial of artificial intelligence (AI) platform Theia found it did not miss referable disease when screening for diabetic retinopathy (DR) and maculopathy.
Drs Baswati Sahoo and Shira Sheen have joined Eye Institute in Hawke’s Bay, doubling the local team.
Recently, in a first for Aotearoa, Dr Peter Hadden from Auckland’s Eye Institute removed a dense juvenile cataract from one eye of a struggling seven-year-old gentoo penguin named Cardi, who lives at Sea Life Kelly Tarlton’s in Auckland. Gentoos are very social and visual creatures, living up to aro
