Background To determine the prevalence and causes of blindness and vision impairment (VI) in East Asia in 2015 and to forecast the trend to 2020. Methods Through a systematic literature review and ...

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 ...

Hiroshi Kobayashi, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Amagasaki Hospital, 1-1-1 Higashi-daimotsu-cho, Amagasaki, Hyogo, 660, Japan. AIM To determine the mechanical effects of pilocarpine on the ...

Dr M J Moseley, Academic Unit of Ophthalmology, The Western Eye Hospital, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5YE. AIMS/BACKGROUND To examine the relative contributions of non-specific (for example, spectacle ...

Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL and Institute of Ophthalmology NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK To date, there has been a lack of evidence-based guidance on the frequency of visual field ...

The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Correspondence to Professor Peizeng Yang, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, ...

Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, B floor, Eye, Ear Nose and Throat Centre, University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK If you ...

Background/aims This work aims to clarify whether micropulse transscleral cyclophotocoagulation (MPCPC) is gentler in terms of postoperative inflammation and is better tolerated compared with ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Carbomers are widely used in products for the treatment of dry eye; however, the polymer gel thins on addition of probes (for example, fluorescein salt) confounding the comparison of ...

Correspondence to: Dr Catherine Stewart Department of Visual Neuroscience, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Campus, Margravine Road, London W6 8RP, UK; c.stewartimperial.ac.uk Aim: To describe ...

Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Correspondence to: MsJennifer Hassell Centre for Eye Research Australia, Locked Bag 8, East Melbourne, 8002, Victoria, ...

Correspondence to Mr Tiarnan D L Keenan, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WH, UK; tiarnan.keenan{at}doctors.org.uk Aims The aims of this study were to examine trends over ...