Experience of observation skill workshop intervention for ophthalmologists in fellowship training.

Background: To gauge the impact of an interventional workshop conducted to measure the observation skills of 34 postgraduates during induction into an ophthalmology fellowship.

Methods: A seven-hour workshop was conducted with the ophthalmology trainees. Trainees from the 2022 batch of ophthalmology fellowships (21 females and 13 males) were included in the study.

Experience of focused workshop intervention in presentation skills - Importance of foundational skills for ophthalmologists in training.

Background: The study was conducted to assess the impact of a workshop intervention designed to enhance presentation skills of ophthalmology fellows in training.

Methods: A 10-hour workshop on presentation skills was conducted for ophthalmology fellows in the 2022 cohort at a single institution. An email was sent to the 2022 cohort to recruit participants.

Analysing the effectiveness of Just-A-Minute Optometry Clinical Pearls: a micro-learning tool in continuing optometry education.

Clinical Relevance: Just-A-Minute Clinical Pearls as a microlearning concept may be beneficial in enhancing optometry and ophthalmology practice globally.

Background: Medical education often witnesses a gap in effectively translating the learnings into clinical practice, pointing to the complex and traditional teaching methods as hindrances. The present work studied the usefulness and acceptability of Just-A-Minute Optometry Clinical Pearls, a micro-learning tool, among optometrists and ophthalmologists.

Thickness of Intraretinal Layers in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Depending on a Concomitant Diabetic Neuropathy: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study Using Deviation Maps for OCT Data Analysis.

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) supports the detection of thickness changes in intraretinal layers at an early stage of diabetes mellitus. However, the analysis of OCT data in cross-sectional studies is complex and time-consuming. We introduce an enhanced deviation map-based analysis (MA) and demonstrate its effectiveness in detecting early changes in intraretinal layer thickness in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) compared to common early treatment diabetic retinopathy study (ETDRS) grid-based analysis (GA).

Deviation Maps for Understanding Thickness Changes of Inner Retinal Layers in Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

: To analyze the use of deviation maps (DevMs) to understand thickness changes of inner retinal layers in optical coherence tomography (OCT) data. To test a new visual analytics (VA) method with reduced complexity of OCT data analysis by comparing the layer thickness of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) to matched controls. : OCT was performed on unilateral eyes of 26 children with T1DM without diabetic retinopathy and 29 healthy children to obtain macular volume scans.

Corneal Subbasal Nerve Plexus Changes in Severe Diabetic Charcot Foot Deformity: A Pilot Study in Search for a DNOAP Biomarker.

Introduction: Diabetic neuroosteoarthropathy (DNOAP) early symptoms are unspecific, mimicking general infectious symptoms and rendering a diagnosis challenging. Consequently, unfavourable outcomes occur frequently, with recurrent foot ulceration, infectious complications, and eventually amputation. Corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) of the subbasal nerve plexus (SNP) is used to detect early peripheral neuropathy in diabetic patients without diabetic retinopathy.

Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography for Determination of Retinal Thickness in Pediatric Patients with Mild-To-Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Objective: Children with chronic kidney diseases (CKD) are at risk for neurological diseases at early adulthood. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) of the retina is especially suitable for determination of intraretinal layer thickness. We wonder whether retinal thinning is already present in pediatric patients with mild-to-moderate CKD.

Role of Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7 (BMP7) in the Modulation of Corneal Stromal and Epithelial Cell Functions.

In the cornea, healing of the wounded avascular surface is an intricate process comprising the involvement of epithelial, stromal and neuronal cell interactions. These interactions result to the release of various growth factors that play prominent roles during corneal wound healing response. Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are unique multi-functional potent growth factors of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) superfamily.

[Visual Analysis of Retinal OCT Data].

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables noninvasive high-resolution 3D imaging of the human retina, and thus plays a fundamental role in ophthalmology. Via OCT examination, even subtle retinal changes can be captured, which occur in very early stages of different diseases (e.g.

Characteristic quantities of corneal epithelial structures in confocal laser scanning microscopic volume data sets.

Purpose: Fully automated quantification of the morphologic features of different epithelial cell layers in healthy human corneas.

Methods: In vivo confocal laser scanning microscopy was performed on the unilateral eyes of 6 healthy volunteers. Stacks of 160 images (400 × 400 μm) with an interslice distance of 0.

Corneal responses to eye rubbing with spectral domain optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: Surprisingly, a significant reduction (18.4%) in epithelial thickness was found after 15 seconds of eye rubbing measured using Holden-Payor optical pachometer reported in the literature. Hence, we aimed at studying the effects of compressive and shearing pressure associated with eye rubbing on total corneal, epithelial and Bowman's membrane thickness using spectral domain OCT (SD-OCT).

A perfluoropolyether corneal inlay for the correction of refractive error.

This study assessed the long-term biological response of a perfluoropolyether-based polymer developed as a corneal inlay to correct refractive error. The polymer formulation met chemical and physical specifications and was non-cytotoxic when tested using standard in vitro techniques. It was cast into small microporous membranes that were implanted as inlays into corneas of rabbits (n = 5) and unsighted humans (n = 5 + 1 surgical control) which were monitored for up to 23 and 48 months respectively.

Synthetic corneal inlays.

This review is based on the activities of the Vision Cooperative Research Centre (previously Cooperative Research Centre for Eye Research and Technology) Corneal Implant team from 1991 to 2007. The development of a synthetic polymer of perfluoropolyether (PFPE), meeting essential physical and biological requirements, for use as a corneal inlay is presented. Each inlay was placed in a corneal flap created with a microkeratome and monitored over a two-year period in a rabbit model.