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Clinical science

• Biopsies of cicatricial conjunctivitis cases reveal highly variable sampling practice among ophthalmologists: time for national and international standardisation (23 September, 2015)

  Hardeep Singh Mudhar
• Incomplete response to artificial tears is associated with features of neuropathic ocular pain (16 September, 2015)

  Anat Galor, Hatim Batawi, Elizabeth R Felix, Todd P Margolis, Konstantinos D Sarantopoulos, Eden R Martin, Roy C Levitt
• Corneal endothelium in xeroderma pigmentosum: clinical specular microscopy study (30 September, 2015)

  Ashik Mohamed, Rajini Peguda, Muralidhar Ramappa, Mohammad Javed Ali, Sunita Chaurasia
• Outcomes of endothelial keratoplasty in pseudophakic corneal oedema: with or without Descemet's membrane stripping (29 October, 2015)

  Ashik Mohamed, Anil Raj KS, Sunita Chaurasia, Muralidhar Ramappa
• Arcuate keratotomy on post-keratoplasty astigmatism is unpredictable and frequently needs repeat procedures to increase its success rate (9 October, 2015)

  Huseyin Bayramlar, Remzi Karadag, Ozgur Cakici, Isilay Ozsoy
• Agreement between novice and experienced trachoma graders improves after a single day of didactic training (24 September, 2015)

  Bidya P Prasad, Ramesh C Bhatta, JSP Chaudhary, Shekhar Sharma, Sailesh Mishra, Puja A Cuddapah, Nicole E Stoller, Sun N Yu, Salman A Rahman, Michael Deiner, Jeremy D Keenan, Bruce D Gaynor
• Ophthalmology trainees’ self-assessment of cataract surgery (7 September, 2015)

  Edward J Casswell, Tahrina Salam, Paul M Sullivan, Daniel G Ezra
• Severe adverse events associated with local anaesthesia in cataract surgery: 1 year national survey of practice and complications in the UK (24 September, 2015)

  Richard M H Lee, John R Thompson, Tom Eke
• Visual phenomena perceived during pars plana vitrectomy under peribulbar block and monitored anaesthesia care (17 September, 2015)

  Hema L Ramkumar, Azadeh Khatibi, William R Freeman, Giulio Barteselli, Isaac C Ezon, Payam Amini, Lucie Sharpsten, Cheryl A Arcinue, Joseph T Nezgoda, Henry A Ferreyra, Michael H Goldbaum
• Long-term treatment with rituximab in severe juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis (22 September, 2015)

  Elisabetta Miserocchi, Giulio Modorati, Luigi Berchicci, Irene Pontikaki, Pierluigi Meroni, Valeria Gerloni
• Ranibizumab 0.5 mg treat-and-extend regimen for diabetic macular oedema: the RETAIN study (9 October, 2015)

  Christian Prünte, Franck Fajnkuchen, Sajjad Mahmood, Federico Ricci, Katja Hatz, Jan Studnička, Vladimir Bezlyak, Soumil Parikh, William John Stubbings, Andreas Wenzel, João Figueira, and the RETAIN Study Group
• Anatomical effects of dexamethasone intravitreal implant in diabetic macular oedema: a pooled analysis of 3-year phase III trials (18 November, 2015)

  Ronald P Danis, Srinivas Sadda, Xiao-Yan Li, Harry Cui, Yehia Hashad, Scott M Whitcup
• A prospective randomised controlled clinical trial comparing a combination of repeated intravitreal Ozurdex and macular laser therapy versus macular laser only in centre-involving diabetic macular oedema (OZLASE study) (15 October, 2015) Free

  Ling Zhi Heng, Sobha Sivaprasad, Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi, Zubin Saihan, Mike Karampelas, Catey Bunce, Tunde Peto, Philip G Hykin
• Retinal sensitivity in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Sankara Nethralaya Diabetic Retinopathy Epidemiology and Molecular Genetics Study (SN-DREAMS II, Report No. 4) (3 September, 2015)

  Laxmi Gella, Rajiv Raman, Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan, Swakshyar Saumya Pal, Suganeswari Ganesan, Tarun Sharma
• Diabetes and diabetic retinopathy in people aged 50 years and older in the Republic of Suriname (20 October, 2015)

  Janna Minderhoud, Jerrel C Pawiroredjo, Anne-Marie T Bueno de Mesquita-Voigt, Herman CI Themen, Michael R Siban, Cindy M Forster-Pawiroredjo, Hans Limburg, Ruth MA van Nispen, Dennis RA Mans, Annette C Moll
• Outer retinal tubulations response to anti-VEGF treatment (30 September, 2015)

  Mark Espina, Cheryl A Arcinue, Feiyan Ma, Natalia Camacho, Giulio Barteselli, Nadia Mendoza, Napoleone Ferrara, William R Freeman
• Novel morphological macular findings in juvenile CLN3 disease (20 October, 2015)

  S Dulz, L Wagenfeld, M Nickel, G Richard, R Schwartz, U Bartsch, A Kohlschütter, A Schulz
• The ophthalmic phenotype of IFT140-related ciliopathy ranges from isolated to syndromic congenital retinal dystrophy

  (10 September, 2015)

  Inam N Bifari, Sahar M Elkhamary, Hanno J Bolz, Arif O Khan
• Retinopathy of prematurity in Korean infants with birthweight greater than 1500 g (19 October, 2015)

  Shin Hae Park, Hae Ri Yum, Seonjoo Kim, Young Chun Lee
• Incidence and survival of retinoblastoma in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based study 1998–2011 (14 September, 2015)

  Su-Yin Li, Solomon Chih-Cheng Chen, Ching-Fang Tsai, Shew-Meei Sheu, Jun-Jun Yeh, Chong-Bin Tsai
• EP3/FP dual receptor agonist ONO-9054 administered morning or evening to patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension: results of a randomised crossover study (9 October, 2015)

  Michael S Berlin, Cheryl Rowe-Rendleman, Ike Ahmed, Douglas T Ross, Akifumi Fujii, Takafumi Ouchi, Christine Quach, Andrew Wood, Caroline L Ward
• Applanation tonometry: interobserver and prism agreement using the reusable Goldmann applanation prism and the Tonosafe disposable prism (9 October, 2015)

  Csilla Ajtony, Ahmed Elkarmouty, Keith Barton, Aachal Kotecha
• Interobserver agreement using Goldmann applanation tonometry and dynamic contour tonometry: comparing ophthalmologists, nurses and technicians (29 September, 2015)

  Aachal Kotecha, Ahmed Elkarmouty, Csilla Ajtony, Keith Barton
• Exposure rate of unwrapped hydroxyapatite orbital implants in enucleation surgery (19 October, 2015)

  Juan Ye, Qi Gao, Jin-jing He, Tao Gao, Qing-yao Ning, Jia-jun Xie
• CADS grading scale: towards better grading of ophthalmic involvement in facial nerve paralysis (15 October, 2015)

  Raman Malhotra, Kimia Ziahosseini, Andre Litwin, Charles Nduka, Nora El-Shammah