British Journal of Ophthalmology

Advances in the laboratory diagnosis of non-viral microbial keratitis

Infectious keratitis remains a leading cause of corneal blindness and visual impairment worldwide, with bacterial, fungal, ...
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OCT-based myopic index: a biological predictor for the progression of high myopia

Conclusions The Myopia Index reflects the real status of fundus microstructures through fundus microstructures, with a ...
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Effects of anti-obesity medications in the retina: a gathering storm or sunshine ahead?

The study by Lakhani et al 1 scrutinises data from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System, revealing formulation and sex-specific associations of the anti-obesity ...
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Ischemic optic neuropathy with semaglutide: global observational analysis of sex- and formulation-specific risk

Ischaemic optic neuropathy (ION) is a rare but vision-threatening complication recently linked to GLP-1 receptor agonists, particularly semaglutide. Using over 30 million reports from the FDA Adverse ...
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Artificial intelligence-enabled retinal vasculometry for prediction of circulatory mortality, myocardial infarction and stroke

Aims We examine whether inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled retinal vasculometry (RV) improves existing risk algorithms for incident stroke, myocardial infarction (MI) and circulatory ...
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Features of the choriocapillaris in myopic maculopathy identified by optical coherence tomography angiography

Correspondence to Dr Kaori Sayanagi, Department of Ophthalmology E7, Osaka University Medical School, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Japan; sayapon{at}aol.com Aim To describe the choriocapillaris ...
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Effect of recombinant human nerve growth factor eye drops in patients with dry eye: a phase IIa, open label, multiple-dose study

Background Dry eye disease (DED) affects more than 14% of the elderly population causing decrease of quality of life, high costs and vision impairment. Current treatments for DED aim at lubricating ...
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Simple limbal epithelial transplantation (SLET): a novel surgical technique for the treatment of unilateral limbal stem cell deficiency

1 Cornea and Anterior Segment Services, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India 2 Sudhakar and Sreekanth Ravi Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India 3 Department ...
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EVEREST study report 2: imaging and grading protocol, and baseline characteristics of a randomised controlled trial of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

Correspondence to A/Prof Tock Han Lim, National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore 308433, Singapore; Tock_Han_Lim{at}nhg.com.sg Purpose To ...
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Using artificial intelligence to improve human performance: efficient retinal disease detection training with synthetic images

Background Artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging diagnostics has huge potential, but human judgement is still indispensable. We propose an AI-aided teaching method that leverages generative ...
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Deep learning model for extensive smartphone-based diagnosis and triage of cataracts and multiple corneal diseases

Aim To develop an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that diagnoses cataracts/corneal diseases from multiple conditions using smartphone images. Methods This study included 6442 images that were ...