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Table of contents

May 2003 - Volume 87 - 5

British Journal of Ophthalmology: 87 (5)

Editorial

What more is there to learn about trachoma? (1 May, 2003)
M Melese, W Alemayehu, B Gaynor, E Yi, J P Whitcher, T M Lietman

BJO at a glance

BJO at a glance (1 May, 2003)
Creig Hoyt

Commentary

Is Chlamydia pneumoniae infection a risk factor for age related macular degeneration?
(1 May, 2003)
O Ishida, H Oku, T Ikeda, M Nishimura, K Kawagoe, K Nakamura

Cover

Is the brain overrated? (1 May, 2003)
I R Schwab, M M Coates

World views

Causes of severe visual impairment and blindness in children in schools for the blind in Ethiopia (1 May, 2003)
A B Kello, C Gilbert
Ocular morbidity in schoolchildren in Kathmandu (1 May, 2003)
B P Nepal, S Koirala, S Adhikary, A K Sharma
Ketamine anaesthesia for paediatric ophthalmology surgery (1 May, 2003)
M S Pun, J Thakur, G Poudyal, R Gurung, S Rana, G Tabin, W V Good, S Ruit

Scientific correspondence

Keratoplasty for keratomalacia in preschool children (1 May, 2003)
R B Vajpayee, M Vanathi, R Tandon, N Sharma, J S Titiyal
Therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty in severe fungal keratitis using cryopreserved donor corneas (1 May, 2003)
Y-F Yao, Y-M Zhang, P Zhou, B Zhang, W-Y Qiu, S C G Tseng
Tumour necrosis factor alpha and interleukin 6 gene expression in keratocytes from patients with rheumatoid corneal ulcerations (1 May, 2003)
J Prada, B Noelle, H Baatz, C Hartmann, U Pleyer
LASIK after retinal detachment surgery (1 May, 2003)
R Sinha, T Dada, L Verma, D B Chaudhury, R Tandon, R B Vajpayee
Novel corneal features in two males with incontinentia pigmenti (1 May, 2003)
E J Mayer, G N Shuttleworth, K L Greenhalgh, J E Sansom, R H B Grey, S Kenwrick
Variability across the optic nerve head in scanning laser tomography (1 May, 2003)
J C H Tan, D F Garway-Heath, R A Hitchings
A prospective study of the rate of falls before and after cataract surgery (1 May, 2003)
S Brannan, C Dewar, J Sen, D Clarke, T Marshall, P I Murray
Use of perfluorocarbon liquid during vitrectomy for severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy (1 May, 2003)
Y Imamura, M Minami, M Ueki, B Satoh, T Ikeda
CXCR4 expression in vitreoretinal membranes (1 May, 2003)
L Cabay, F Willermain, C Bruyns, JM Verdebout, Y Witta, J Baffi, T Velu, J Libert, L Caspers-Velu, A Maho, L Lespagnard
Patchy atrophy and lacquer cracks predispose to the development of choroidal neovascularisation in pathological myopia (1 May, 2003)
K Ohno-Matsui, T Yoshida, S Futagami, K Yasuzumi, N Shimada, A Kojima, T Tokoro, M Mochizuki
The Endophthalmitis Population Study of Western Australia (EPSWA): first report (1 May, 2003)
N Morlet, J Li, J Semmens, J Ng
Reproducibility of ophthalmodynamometric measurements of central retinal artery and vein collapse pressure (1 May, 2003)
J B Jonas
Myopia, genetics, and ambient lighting at night in a UK sample (1 May, 2003)
J A Guggenheim, C Hill, T-F Yam

Echo

Some patients rate risk of complications not worth the wait for cataract operations (1 May, 2003)

Original Articles

Clinical science

Retention of corneal epithelial cells following Goldmann tonometry: implications for CJD risk (1 May, 2003)
R Lim, B Dhillon, K M Kurian, P A Aspinall, K Fernie, J W Ironside
Corneal calcification after amniotic membrane transplantation (1 May, 2003)
S B Anderson, R Ferreira de Souza, C Hofmann-Rummelt, B Seitz
Unoprostone as adjunctive therapy to timolol: a double masked randomised study versus brimonidine and dorzolamide (1 May, 2003)
A Hommer, B Kapik, N Shams
A prospective randomised trial of viscocanalostomy with and without implantation of a reticulated hyaluronic acid implant (SKGEL) in open angle glaucoma (1 May, 2003)
C Lüke, T S Dietlein, P C Jacobi, W Konen, G K Krieglstein
Agreement between frequency doubling perimetry and static perimetry in eyes with high tension glaucoma and normal tension glaucoma (1 May, 2003)
S Kogure, Y Toda, D Crabb, K Kashiwagi, F W Fitzke, S Tsukahara
Identification of lesion components that influence visual function in age related macular degeneration (1 May, 2003)
R Hogg, E Curry, A Muldrew, J Winder, M Stevenson, M McClure, U Chakravarthy
One year follow up of macular translocation with 360 degree retinotomy in patients with age related macular degeneration (1 May, 2003)
A Abdel-Meguid, A Lappas, K Hartmann, F Auer, N Schrage, G Thumann, B Kirchhof
Relation between retrobulbar circulation and progression of diabetic retinopathy (1 May, 2003)
G Dimitrova, S Kato, H Yamashita, Y Tamaki, M Nagahara, H Fukushima, S Kitano
Disease laterality, eye dominance, and visual handicap in patients with unilateral full thickness macular holes (1 May, 2003)
K Waheed, D A H Laidlaw

Laboratory science

Human uveal melanoma expresses NG2 immunoreactivity (1 May, 2003)
Y Li, M C Madigan, K Lai, R M Conway, F A Billson, R Crouch, B J Allen

Controversies in ophthalmology

Predictive DNA testing in ophthalmology (1 May, 2003)
D A Mackey, E Héon, A R Webster
Predictive DNA testing in ophthalmology: View 1 (1 May, 2003)
E Héon
Predictive DNA testing in ophthalmology: View 2 (1 May, 2003)
A R Webster
Overview (1 May, 2003)
D A Mackey

Perspective

Connecting the eye to the brain: the molecular basis of ganglion cell axon guidance (1 May, 2003)
S F Oster, D W Sretavan

Letters

Corneal deposits after the topical use of ofloxacin in two children with vernal keratoconjunctivitis (1 May, 2003)
I Claerhout, Ph Kestelyn, F Meire, J-P Remon, T Decaestecker, J Van Bocxlaer
Chromosomal translocation in a family with ocular anomalies: indications for karyotype analysis (1 May, 2003)
R V Jamieson, L Gaunt, D Donnai, G C M Black, B Kerr, O Stecko, G C M Black
Topiramate induced myopic shift and angle closure glaucoma (1 May, 2003)
T C Chen, C W Chao, J A Sorkin
LASIK induced choroidal infarcts (1 May, 2003)
R B Jain, A Chopdar
A case of Boerhaave’s syndrome associated with raised intraocular pressure (1 May, 2003)
S Nabili, J R Murdoch
Severe bilateral necrotising retinitis caused by Toxoplasma gondii in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus and diabetes mellitus
(1 May, 2003)
J H Yamamoto, D I Boletti, Y Nakashima, C E Hirata, E Olivalves, M M Shinzato, T S Okay, R M Santo, M I S Duarte, J Kalil
Idiopathic dilated episcleral veins and increased intraocular pressure (1 May, 2003)
R Foroozan, L M Buono, P J Savino, R C Sergott
Trypan blue assisted descemetorhexis for inadvertently retained Descemet’s membranes after penetrating keratoplasty (1 May, 2003)
R Sinha, R B Vajpayee, N Sharma, J S Titiyal, R Tandon
Orbital haemorrhage complication following postoperative thrombolysis (1 May, 2003)
J K Leong, R Ghabrial, P J McCluskey, S Mulligan
The IOL flip: rescue for foldable lens implantation gone wrong (1 May, 2003)
C Y W Khng, K-T Yeo
Recovery of visual function in a patient with birdshot chorioretinitis (1 May, 2003)
F M Dolan, M Gavin, S Parks, D Keating
Central retinal venous occlusion with co-existent thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and antiphospholipid syndrome (1 May, 2003)
P T Murphy, P Rao

Mailbox

Further considerations of retinopathy with renal failure (1 May, 2003)
M D Mohamed, M A McKibbin
Comments on myopia in secondary school students in Tanzania (1 May, 2003)
L Tong
Left handed non-dominant hand phacoemulsification (1 May, 2003)
R B Vajpayee, P Moulick, N Sharma, R Tandon
Left handed non-dominant hand phacoemulsification (1 May, 2003)
T R G Poole

From the library

From the Library (1 May, 2003)

Issue Information

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