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Gentle eye drops, laser or minimally invasive surgery, advising patients on safe viewing of electronic devices, and addressing eyelid disorders can all help to minimise adverse effects.

Investigators evaluated VA outcomes after cataract surgery and the factors associated with good visual outcomes in a population of patients with type 2 diabetes.

Clinicians need to investigate patients’ history, family history, visual behaviours and general health in order to promptly and accurately refer paediatric cases to ocular genetics clinics.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to greater comfort with robotic telepresence in eye screenings.

Methods using a combination of non-invasive thermal treatments and meibomian gland expression seem to be particularly effective.

Investigators report that a gel-forming sustained-delivery eye drop containing sunitinib can provide increased intraocular absorption of the drug while protecting retinal cells.

Study images showed that large drusen compressed the inner macula and distorted the tissue architecture, and geographic atrophy resulted in posterior prolapse of the inner retinal layers.

Patients appreciate the convenience and aesthetic improvements of light-based dry eye treatment, and it can also be applied elsewhere on the face.

AI and teleophthalmology both show very high level of agreement with in-person evaluations, although further studies are needed to reduce the number of ungradable images.

Central tenotomy and central plication are just two options that can correct very small deviations previously not amenable to surgical treatment.

The goal of World Sight Day, according to IAPB, is “to shine a light on blindness and vision impairment as a major, but solvable, public health issue."

Coordinated by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), the international day of awareness is a reminder to "love your eyes."

Non-diffractive lenses offer alternative in challenging post-corneal refractive surgery cases.

Innovations in the design of rigid corneal lenses and scleral lenses have delayed the use of or eliminated the need for keratoplasty.

Investigators advise an ophthalmologic evaluation at the time of tumour diagnosis to detect early vision loss.

New visually-guided hearing aid uses eye gaze to focus amplification of sound signals from the direction of the user’s attention.

A combination of posters, podium presentations and instructional courses provided invaluable revelations to the ophthalmic community.

Companies are exploring light-sensitive proteins method in patients with advanced disease.

The data analysis showed that the macular thickness decreased across all time periods and in all macular regions for all terciles.

Patients with a unilateral rhegmatogenous retinal detachment frequently ask about the risk of developing an RRD in their fellow eye.

Those who used both traditional and electronic cigarettes reported severe to very severe ophthalmic symptoms.

The AVONELLE-X long-term extension study will continue to evaluate the efficacy, durability and safety of faricimab in patients with neovascular AMD.

The results also showed that, compared to use of systemic antivirals alone, treatment with adjunctive intravitreal injections or early pars plana vitrectomy did not affect the time to development of retinal detachments.

Robot-assisted surgical precision offers less than 5-µm precision tremor stabilization, 1 to 10-mN force-sensing smart instrumentation and automated procedure-specific guidance and assistance with analytics.

Almost 5 million patients in the IRIS Registry had received at least one diagnosis of DED between 2013 and 2019; of those, 203,171 were children under 18 years of age and 4,592,808 were adults.

13% of pediatric patients had new-onset strabismus after a tube shunt procedure; in contrast, 0% of adults had new-onset strabismus after tube shunt surgery (at 6 months or at last follow-up).

Following the lockdown due to COVID-19, investigators highlight the need to re-assess policies on patient follow-up and establish new approaches to provision of care for elderly patients.

The epithelium adapts to compensate for changes in the cornea and these changes can be detected with high sensitivity, reducing both false positives and false negatives in the diagnosis of keratoconus.

According to one study, when genetic testing is coupled with advanced imaging, the chances of identifying keratoconus early are greater.

According to Nicox SA, the patients made their final 3-month visit last week. Top line results of the trial are expected in November.