Background/aims To determine if patients with vitreoretinal lymphoma (VRL) and concomitant central nervous system lymphoma ...

Keratoconus is an ectatic corneal dystrophy and is a leading indication for corneal transplantation surgery worldwide. The disease was first described in detail more than 150 years ago by Dr John ...

Worldwide, and especially in Asia, myopia is a major vision-threatening disorder. From AD 1600 on, to prevent myopia, authors warned against near work without sufficient pauses. There was an abundance ...

University of Kansas School of Medicine, Prairie Village, Kansas, USA Professor M A Mainster, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, 7400 State Line Road, Prairie ...

The eye is an easily accessible, highly compartmentalised and immune-privileged organ that offers unique advantages as a gene therapy target. Significant advancements have been made in understanding ...

Aims To determine if ‘Defocus Incorporated Soft Contact’ (DISC) lens wear slows childhood myopia progression. Methods A 2-year double-blind randomised controlled trial was carried out in 221 children ...

5 Vision Eye Institute, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, North West Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Correspondence to Professor Rasik B Vajpayee, Vision Eye ...

Correspondence to Dr Hae Jung Paik, Department of Ophthalmology, Gachon University Gil Hospital, 1198, Guwol-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon 405-760, Republic of Korea; hjpaik{at}gilhospital.com Aim To ...

1 Department of Clinical Physiopathology, Ophthalmology Section Turin University, Italy 2 Department of Medicine and Experimental Oncology, Turin University, Italy 3 Department of Internal Medicine, ...

Primary congenital glaucoma is a rare disease but has a major impact on the child’s development and quality of life over his/her whole life span. Early diagnosis and appropriate therapy can make a ...

1 Department of Ophthalmology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway 2 Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway 3 NIHR Biomedical Research ...

Glaucoma surgery has been, for many decades now, dominated by the universal gold standard which is trabeculectomy augmented with antimetabolites. Tubes also came into the scene to complement what we ...