Aniridia: sight-threatening and hard to cure

Preventing sight-threatening ROP: a neonatologist's perspective

COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 99 | 2017 It is recognised that the number of new cases (incidence) of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) varies considerably between different intensive care neonatal units, even those with similar characteristics in terms of the equipment and clinical staff available. Whilst there may be several other reasons for this, one reason we can be certa...

Paget's Osteosarcoma — no Cure in Sight

UNLABELLED Purpose Paget' s osteosarcoma has a fearful reputation with a quoted survival of at best 5% at 5 years.We therefore reviewed our experience of 26 patients treated over the last 25 years using modern staging and limb salvage techniques to see if there had been any improvement in survival. SUBJECTS We identified 26 patients on the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Oncological database with ...

Optimizing Medical Management in Patients with Sight-Threatening Diabetic Retinopathy

INTRODUCTION Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness in adults of working age. Patients with sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) often have poor control of modifiable risk factors, including blood pressure and blood glucose. Patients in our eye department with STDR whose diabetes was managed only by their general practitioner (GP) were referred to a diabetes specialist. W...

Sight-threatening pseudotumour cerebri associated with excess vitamin A supplementation.

To cite: Benzimra JD, Simon S, Sinclair AJ, et al. Pract Neurol 2015;15: 72–73. CASE A 17-year-old girl presented with a 2-week history of increasingly severe generalised headache that was worse on waking, with blurring of vision and transient visual obscurations. Her visual acuity was 6/24 right eye and 6/36 left eye with a marked constriction of visual fields. Fundus examination showed severe...

Canakinumab for Childhood Sight-threatening Refractory Uveitis: A Case Series.