Visual and ocular morbidity in severe open-globe injuries presenting to a regional eye centre in New Zealand.

Importance: Open-globe injuries (OGI) are a leading cause of monocular blindness world-wide with considerable cost to the individual and society.

Background: To characterize the epidemiology, severity and outcomes of OGI treated at a major ophthalmology centre in New Zealand.

Design: Retrospective study.

Virtual glaucoma clinics: patient acceptance and quality of patient education compared to standard clinics.

Purpose: Virtual glaucoma clinics allow rapid, reliable patient assessment but the service should be acceptable to patients and concordance with treatment needs to be maintained with adequate patient education. This study compares experiences and understanding of patients reviewed via the virtual clinic versus the standard clinic by way of an extended patient satisfaction questionnaire (PSQ).

Patients And Methods: One hundred PSQs were given to consecutive patients attending glaucoma clinics in October 2013.

Acute unilateral isolated ptosis.

A 64-year-old man presented with a 2-day history of acute onset painless left ptosis. He had no other symptoms; importantly pupils were equal and reactive and eye movements were full. There was no palpable mass or swelling.