Background: Voriconazole has an important role to play in the prophylaxis and management of fungal endophthalmitis and keratitis. New-generation triazoles, including voriconazole, posaconazole and ...

Background/aims This study assesses the proficiency of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)-4 in answering questions about complex clinical ophthalmology cases. Methods We tested GPT-4 on 422 ...

The changing profile of patients undergoing ophthalmic surgery, with an increase in prevalence of antiplatelet and anticoagulant drug use, predisposes to bleeding complications. This mandates an ...

Introduction We describe a surgical technique for ptosis correction in moderate to good levator function involving advancement of the levator aponeurosis via a transconjunctival posterior approach ...

Aim To develop and test a user-friendly questionnaire for rapidly assessing quality of life (QOL) in thyroid eye disease (TED). Methods A three-item questionnaire, the TED-QOL, was designed and ...

Aims To evaluate the associations of parental reproductive age with the risk of myopia and high myopia in adult offspring. Methods This cross-sectional study included 14 044 UK Biobank participants.

Normal foveal development begins in utero at midgestation with centrifugal displacement of inner retinal layers (IRLs) from the location of the incipient fovea. The outer retinal changes such as ...

Introduction Glaucoma is a lifelong condition often requiring surgical intervention. To allow us to inform patients’ expectations of surgery effectively, it is important to understand patients’ ...

Background/aims To estimate 2015 global ophthalmologist data and analyse their relationship to income groups, prevalence rates of blindness and visual impairment and gross domestic product (GDP) per ...

Background Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the leading causes of childhood blindness. Use of antenatal steroid can reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality in preterm births, but its effect ...

Dry eye disease (DED) is a growing public health concern affecting quality of life and visual function, with a significant socio-economic impact. It is characterised by the loss of homoeostasis, ...

Background/aims To compare the performance and cost-effectiveness of DeepSeek-R1 with OpenAI o1 in diagnosing and managing ophthalmology clinical cases. Methods In this cross-sectional study, a total ...