Validation of the European visual field standards for driving: A driving simulator-based study.

Purpose: To determine whether we could establish evidence-based pass/fail criteria for perimetry in the context of the European visual field standards for driving.

Methods: This two-centre, cross-sectional study included participants with binocular visual field loss that had led to revocation of a group-1 driving licence. The participants underwent cognitive and binocular visual testing, including the European Driving Test (EDT), a perimetry algorithm that adheres to the European visual field standards.

Ten-year trends of delayed sequential bilateral cataract surgery (DSBCS) in Sweden: a register-based study.

Purpose: To study the trend of delayed sequential bilateral cataract surgery (DSBCS) in Sweden in the past decade.

Methods: This register-based cohort study utilized data from the Swedish National Cataract Register (NCR) from 2010 through 2019. Register files from patients who underwent cataract surgery in both eyes during the study period were linked using their social security numbers.

Endophthalmitis after cataract surgery and effect of different intracameral antibiotic regimes in Sweden 2011-2017: national registry study.

Purpose: To study the incidence, predictive factors, etiology, and visual consequences of postoperative endophthalmitis (PE) in relation to 3 intracameral (IC) antibiotic regimes.

Setting: Swedish National Cataract Register entries from 2011 through 2017.

Design: Observational retrospective study.

Time spent outdoors in childhood related to myopia among young adults in the Swedish ABIS cohort.

Purpose: Elucidate the prevalence of myopia among young adults from a birth cohort of Swedish children and its relationship to possible risk factors during their childhood.

Methods: Five thousand two hundred young adults, mean 23.4 years and 58% females, participating in the prospective birth cohort All Babies in Southeast Sweden (ABIS) answered a questionnaire including questions regarding health and physical activity, spectacle use, myopia and age at first optical correction.

[2.6 million cataract surgeries: 31 years with the Swedish National Cataract Register 1992-2022].

This review summarizes data collected by the Swedish National Cataract Register (NCR), which by the end of 2022 contained data on more than 2.6 million cataract surgeries between 1992-2022. During these 31 years, the cataract surgery rate (CSR) rose from 3 700 to 14 407.

Treatment burden on patients receiving intravitreal anti-VEGF for wet age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to map the treatment burden for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD).

Method: Patients with ongoing treatment with anti-VEGF for wAMD at a Swedish eye unit underwent a survey about the time spent receiving treatment, caregiver assistance, way of transportation, self-rated vision and negative experiences associated with the treatment such as discomfort, anxiety or transportation problems. Information about current visual acuity, number of treatments and current treatment intervals were obtained from medical records.

Two point four million cataract surgeries: 30 years with the Swedish National Cataract Register, 1992-2021.

The present review summarizes data collected by the Swedish National Cataract Register (NCR), which by the end of 2021 contained data for more than 2.4 million cataract surgeries between 1992 and 2021. During these 30 years, the cataract surgery rate rose from 3700 to 12 800.

Padel an increasing cause of sport-related eye injuries in Sweden.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to determine the current Swedish epidemiology of sport-related eye injuries and to analyse the effect of the increased popularity of the racquet sport padel.

Methods: This was a retrospective, register-based, cohort study of medical records in the county of Jönköping, Sweden. All individuals with a sports-related eye injury needing healthcare between January 2017 and December 2021 were included.

Ten-year trends of immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS) as reflected in the Swedish National Cataract Register.

Purpose: To analyse trends of ISBCS reported to the Swedish National Cataract Register (NCR) over a 10-year period.

Methods: Since 2010 the NCR contains social security number of all individuals in the list of parameters reported to NCR after each cataract procedure. Bilateral surgeries were mapped out using social security numbers.

Relatively Stable Prevalence of Myopia among Swedish Children Aged 4 to 7 Years between 2015 and 2020.

Significance: The global increase of myopia has caused a lot of debate the last years. Previous research of myopia in the Nordic population has shown diverse results, and only a few Swedish studies have been published in the subject the last two decades.

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze trends in the prevalence of myopia in a population of Swedish children.

The Effects of Visual Field Loss from Optic Disc Drusen on Performance in a Driving Simulator.

The purpose of this study was to compare the driving simulator performance of participants with visual field loss (VFL) from optic disc drusen (ODD) with a normally sighted control group and a group of individuals with glaucoma. Data on performance and safety from a traffic simulator test for five participants with VFL from ODD were retrospectively compared with data from 49 male individuals without visual deficits in a cross-sectional study. VFL of the ODD group was also compared with a group of 20 male glaucoma participants who had failed the same simulator test.

The Effects of Visual Field Loss from Stroke on Performance in a Driving Simulator.

Significance: Visual field loss is a common consequence of stroke and often precludes driving. However, legal visual requirements for drivers' licenses are largely without scientific basis.

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the effects of different types of homonymous visual field loss after stroke on simulated driving.

Worldwide ophthalmological research production 2000-2020, with special focus on the Nordic contribution.

Purpose: To explore the trends in worldwide ophthalmic research production over a 21-year period in relation to journals, contributing countries and dominating topics with special focus on the Nordic region.

Methods: Articles published between 2000 and 2020 in 20 top-ranked ophthalmology journals were included. Number of articles and impact points were measured per country for each year.

Self-Perception and the Relation to Actual Driving Abilities for Individuals With Visual Field Loss.

Background: In Sweden, individuals with visual field loss (VFL) have their driving license withdrawn. The literature clearly indicates that individuals with VFL are unsafe drivers on a group level. However, many drivers with VFL can be safe on an individual level.

Benjamin Esterman (1906-1994) and the binocular visual field scoring grid that became a world standard for assessing driver eligibility.

The visual field grid developed by the ophthalmologist Benjamin Esterman (1906-1994) is today an accepted standard for assessing driver eligibility in many parts of the world. However, little is published about the scientific process that led to the test or about the person who developed it. The aim of this article is to portray the ophthalmologist Benjamin Esterman, and to discuss the visual field grid with his name and its current role in assessing driving eligibility.

The effects of visual-field loss from panretinal photocoagulation of proliferative diabetic retinopathy on performance in a driving simulator.

Background: The purpose of this study was to compare driving-simulator performance of participants with visual-field loss (VFL) from panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) with a normally sighted control group. Furthermore, we investigated the effects of VFL of different extent on driving.

Methods: Data on performance and safety from a traffic-simulator test for 27 participants with VFL from PRP of PDR were retrospectively compared with data from 83 individuals without visual deficits in a cross-sectional study.

[Hampered by an eyelid - Swedish immigrants to the United States debarred for trachoma in the early 20th century].

Purpose: To investigate Swedish immigrants to the United States debarred for medical reasons, with particular focus on trachoma.

Method: Annual official reports of debarred immigrants have been compiled to compare reasons for debarment among Scandinavian immigrants vs. immigrants from all countries.

Shared burden is always lighter - Peer-review performance in an ophthalmological journal 2010-2020.

Purpose: There are concerns in the academic publishing community that it is becoming more difficult to secure reviews for scientific manuscripts. This study examines trends in editorial and peer review processes in an ophthalmological journal over the last decade.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed of editorial data from the journal Acta Ophthalmologica containing all manuscript submissions between 2010 and 2020.

The future is old - Patients with topical ocular hypotensive treatment in the Nordic region between 2008 and 2017 with projections for 2040.

Purpose: The primary objective was to evaluate prescribing trends for topical ocular hypotensive treatment in the Nordic region during the last decade and, by population projections, estimate the glaucoma burden in 2040. A secondary objective was to analyse national variations in prescription patterns across the Nordic region.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of national pharmacy data between 2008 and 2017 on the dispensation of topical ocular hypotensive treatment in the Nordic region was performed.

The effects of visual field loss from glaucoma on performance in a driving simulator.

Background: To examine the effects of different stages of visual field loss (VFL) from advanced glaucoma on performance in a driving simulator.

Methods: Data on performance and safety from a traffic simulator test for 104 participants with withdrawn driver's licences due to visual field loss from advanced glaucoma were compared with data from 83 individuals without visual deficits in a cross-sectional study. Individuals with glaucoma that regained their driving licences after a successful simulator test were then followed in a national accident database.

Off-label use of bevacizumab for wet age-related macular degeneration in Europe.

Purpose: To analyse current off-label use of bevacizumab for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in Europe.

Methods: The study was conducted as a combined survey and literature review. It included the 22 most populous countries in Europe.

Worth changing? Clinical effects of switching treatment in neovascular age-related macular degeneration from intravitreal ranibizumab and aflibercept to bevacizumab in a region in southern Sweden.

Purpose: To examine the clinical effects of switching intravitreal drug treatment from the approved vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors, ranibizumab and aflibercept, to off label use of bevacizumab in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration.

Methods: This retrospective study scrutinized medical records of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration who switched therapy to bevacizumab due to a policy decision. Best corrected visual acuity, central retinal thickness, and number of injections before and 1 year after the switch was compared.

[Eyes for cars].

Driving is the preferred mode for transportation in many parts of the world and may also be the only available alternative. The driver's ability may however be disturbed by many medical conditions. The visual requirements for driving in Sweden is based on the third European driving license directive but also adds more specified requirements of visual field, related to the methods used in health care.