Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty is the predominant keratoplasty procedure in Germany since 2016: a report of the DOG-section cornea and its keratoplasty registry (see page 646) This study summarises absolute numbers, types of and in…
Background
Amblyopia is characterised by reduced visual acuity, poor binocular sensory fusion, and impaired or absent stereoacuity. Understanding the extent to which amblyopia affects everyday task performance is important to quantifying the disease b…
Aims
To evaluate the effect of an intraoperative dose of intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) on surgical success following trabeculectomy with mitomycin-C (MMC) over 12 months.
Methods
A single centre, parallel, double-blinded randomised, placebo-cont…
Stargardt macular dystrophy (Stargardt disease; STGD1; OMIM 248200) is the most prevalent inherited macular dystrophy. STGD1 is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by multiple pathogenic sequence variants in the large ABCA4 gene (OMIM 601691). Majo…
Background
To assess the prevalence of myopia and the distribution of ocular axial length as surrogate for myopic refractive error in school children in a population in Russia.
Methods
The Ural Children Eye Study, a school-based case–control st…
Aims
To quantify the profiles of choroidal vascularity index (CVI) using fully artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithm applied to swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) images and evaluate the determinants of CVI in a population-based…
Purpose
To evaluate the potential of retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) measurements and polygenic risk scores (PRS) to identify people at risk of cognitive impairment.
Methods
Using OCT images from 50 342 UK Biobank participants, we examined…
Background
Metabolic factors and obesity may influence the development and progression of cancer. In this study, we examine their association with the risk of developing metastases of uveal melanoma.
Methods
Data on metabolic factors, medications, se…
Aim
To report anatomical and functional outcomes after surgical repair of acute-onset vs delayed-onset rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RDs) following acute posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).
Methods
A retrospective, comparative interventional c…
Objective
The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of low-dose atropine 0.01% in controlling myopia progression among Indian children over a 2-year period.
Methods
This retrospective study, conducted across 20 centres in India, monitore…