Center and surgeon effect on outcomes of endothelial keratoplasty versus penetrating keratoplasty in the United Kingdom.

Purpose: To compare national outcomes of endothelial keratoplasty (EK) and penetrating keratoplasty (PK) during comparable 6-year periods.

Design: Prospective cohort study of national registry data.

Setting: United Kingdom National Transplant Registry, 2000 through 2011, inclusive.

Outcomes of autoconjunctival grafting for primary pterygia when performed by consultant compared with trainee ophthalmologists.

Purpose: To define rates of recurrence and surgical complications of primary pterygia excision with autoconjunctival grafting when the surgery is performed by consultant ophthalmologists compared with trainee ophthalmologists.

Methods: A total of 174 patients with primary pterygia treated by excision and autoconjunctival grafting were included for analysis. Patients were divided into two groups according to whether their surgery was performed by a consultant ophthalmologist (group A) or a trainee ophthalmologist (group B).

Paediatric endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy in congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to report a series of paediatric patients who underwent endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) for primary congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (NLDO).

Methods: This is a retrospective, noncomparative review of all consecutive cases in two lacrimal clinics between January 1999 and October 2004. The main outcome measures were patients' demographics, previous treatments, clinical presentation, operative and postoperative complications, postoperative follow-up and resolution of epiphora.