Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on eye emergencies.

Background: To characterise and compare ocular pathologies presenting to an emergency eye department (EED) during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 against an equivalent period in 2019.

Methods: Electronic patient records of 852 patients in 2020 and 1818 patients in 2019, attending the EED at a tertiary eye centre (University Hospitals of Leicester, UK) were analysed. Data was extracted over a 31-day period during: (study period 1 (SP1)) COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in UK (24th March 2020-23rd April 2020) and (study period 2 (SP2)) the equivalent 2019 period (24th March 2019-23rd April 2019).

Ophthalmic features of spinocerebellar ataxia type 7.

Background: Patients with spinocerebellar ataxia 7 (SCA7) are known to develop ocular abnormalities. The purpose of this study was to characterize these abnormalities in greater detail and with the aid of newer quantitative technologies.

Methods: Seven patients with SCA7 diagnosed by genetic analysis at La Paz Hospital (Madrid, Spain), a country-wide referral center for ataxias, were included in the study.

[Maxillary sinus cancer review in 23 patients treated with postoperative radiotherapy].

Objective: To describe the survival and outcome of maxillary sinus cancer in patients managed with surgery and post-operative radiotherapy during the last 10 years in our hospital.

Patients And Method: Descriptive, retrospective, non-randomized study of 23 patients with cancer of the maxillary sinus managed at the Vigo University Hospital Complex, Spain, with radical surgery and post-operative radiotherapy, between 1995 and 2004.

Results: The 3-year actuarial survival was 47.