British Journal of Ophthalmology

Systematic review of the incidence of microbial keratitis following corneal transplantation for corneal endothelial decompensation

Background Postoperative microbial keratitis (MK) can cause graft failure and vision loss following keratoplasty for corneal ...
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Linking accelerated biological ageing to cataract susceptibility: evidence from cross-cohort analysis

Purpose The cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between accelerated biological ageing and the risk of cataract and ...
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Impact of AI-enhanced three-dimensional OCT scans on disease activity assessment in patients with nAMD: the RAZORBILL study

Background The standard of care for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is repeated intravitreal injection ...
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Peripheral retinal haemorrhage density on ultra-widefield imaging as a novel biomarker for predicting diabetic retinopathy progression: a 2-year longitudinal stu…

Aims To evaluate whether predominantly peripheral lesions (PPLs) and other imaging biomarkers on ultra-widefield (UWF) ...
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Outcomes of eyes with persistent diabetic macular oedema: The Fight Retinal Blindness! Project

Aims To compare 1-year and 2-year outcomes of eyes with persistent and non-persistent diabetic macular oedema (DME) treated with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors. Methods This was ...
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Continuous tumour volume improves prognostic stratification beyond AJCC stage and MLPA cytogenetic profile in uveal melanoma

Purpose To evaluate the prognostic value of estimated tumour volume as a continuous biomarker in uveal melanoma and to compare its discriminative performance with the American Joint Committee on ...
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Differences in characteristics, aetiologies, isolated pathogens, and the efficacy of antibiotics in adult patients with preseptal cellulitis and orbital cellulitis between 2000 ...

Background/aims To understand whether the epidemiology, aetiologies, common pathogens and the antibiotic efficacy against the identified bacteria of periorbital cellulitis in adults have changed ...
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X linked dominant congenital isolated bilateral ptosis: the definition and characterisation of a new condition

AIMS To characterise the inheritance of ptosis in one particular pedigree. METHODS The pedigree was analysed clinically and genetically to assess the mode of inheritance and to ascribe a gene locus ...
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Protective behaviours of near work and time outdoors in myopia prevalence and progression in myopic children: a 2-year prospective population study

Correspondence to Professor Yiing-Mei Liou, Institute of Community Health Care, School of Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan; ymliou{at}ym.edu.tw Aim To investigate the ...
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Implementation of medical retina virtual clinics in a tertiary eye care referral centre

Background The increasing incidence of medical retinal diseases has created capacity issues across UK. In this study, we describe the implementation and outcomes of virtual medical retina clinics ...
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Capabilities of GPT-4 in ophthalmology: an analysis of model entropy and progress towards human-level medical question answering

Background Evidence on the performance of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4), a large language model (LLM), in the ophthalmology question-answering domain is needed. Methods We tested GPT-4 ...
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Randomised masked clinical trial of the MGDRx eyebag for the treatment of meibomian gland dysfunction-related evaporative dry eye

Correspondence to Professor James S Wolffsohn, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK; j.s.w.wolffsohn{at}aston.ac.uk Background/aims To investigate the efficacy ...