TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - British Journal of Ophthalmology JO - Br J Ophthalmol SP - i LP - ii DO - 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2017-311100 VL - 101 IS - 9 AU - Keith Barton AU - James Chodosh AU - Jost B Jonas Y1 - 2017/09/01 UR - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/101/9/i.abstract N2 - Moderate-to-late preterm children at 12 years of age, with no history of retinopathy of prematurity, displayed reduced pattern-reversal visual evoked potential amplitudes compared with those of controls.The development of the orbital volume in childhood is biphasic. The first growth phase is before 3 and the second is from 7 to 12, with the speed in the first phase three times faster.Thinner retinal ganglion cell and inner plexiform layers are related to lower grey and white matter volumes in brain MRI from school-age children born small for gestational age.In this study, a significant reduction in retinal sensitivity, as measured using microperimetry, was observed in subjects who had diabetic neuropathy but no diabetic retinopathy. This suggests that retinal function loss may preceed vascular damage in subjects with peripheral diabetic neuropathy.Wide-field indocyanine green angiography detected posterior vortex veins in 26% of 302 eyes with high myopia. Posterior vortex veins are probably important routes of choroidal outflow in highly myopic eyes.In 5 years, 23% of unilateral age-related macular degeneration of any severity and 44% of unilateral late age-related macular degeneration cases … ER -