PURPOSE To present a patient with acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement syndrome who had abnormal changes in the outer retinal microstructure limited to areas with reduced responses on multifocal electroretinograms as well as to the area involving a scotoma. METHODS AND RESULTS We report the case of a 44-year-old man who developed an arcuate scotoma which was associated with a physiological...

We present a novel ‘proof-of-concept’ electrochemically based membrane filtration process for the recovery of nitrogen and phosphorus from livestock wastewater following an anaerobic digestion step. Reactive electrically conducting membranes are shown to precipitate separate struvite, eco-friendly fertilizer synthetic wastewater, resulting in production solid high-quality water stream, fit irri...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus remains the leading cause of blindness among working age Americans with diabetic macular edema being the most common cause for moderate and severe vision loss. OBJECTIVE To investigate the anatomical and visual benefits of pars plana vitrectomy with inner limiting membrane peeling in patients with nontractional diabetic macular edema as well as correlation of inte...

OBJECTIVE To describe the morphology of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tears secondary to age-related macular degeneration by using high-resolution, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). METHODS For simultaneous topographic and tomographic in vivo imaging, confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography were applied in combination. Re...

OBJECTIVE To compare the anatomical and visual outcomes of primary idiopathic macular hole surgery using indocyanine green-assisted internal limiting membrane peeling versus no internal limiting membrane peeling. DESIGN Prospective randomised controlled clinical trial. SETTING University teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Fifty-one eyes of 49 Chinese patients with primary idiopathic m...