Review Article
Ophthalmic Regional Block
Patient comfort, safety and low complication rates are the essentials of local anaesthesia. The anaesthetic requirements for ophthalmic surgery are dictated by the nature...
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Radiation-induced Optic Neuropathy
Radiation optic neuropathy (RON) is an infrequent but usually devastating consequence of radiation to the optic pathways. It is almost exclusively an iatrogenic phenomenon,...
The Natural History of Occult Choroidal Neovascularisation Associated With Age-related Macular Degeneration. A Systematic...
Choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) is a leading cause of blindness in the western world. It causes 90% of the visual loss in age-related macular degeneration...
Retinal Prostheses for the Blind
Each year, thousands of people are afflicted with photoreceptor degenerative diseases that reduce vision to bare light perception or complete blindness. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP)...
The Risk of Suicidality with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
The first antidepressants were discovered 50 years ago by chance. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) and tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) dominated the treatment of depression from...
Does the Advent of Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) Sound the Death Knell for Endoscopic Retrograde...
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has been the primary method of diagnosing and treating many pancreatic and biliary diseases (PBD) over the last 3 decades....
Tsunami in South Asia: What is the Risk of Post-disaster Infectious Disease Outbreaks?
The tsunami that struck 11 countries in South Asia on 26 December 2004 represents the greatest natural disaster of our times, prompting the biggest...
Plasma Filtration
Many immune-mediated and autoimmune diseases are caused by dysregulation of the cell-mediated and/or humoral-mediated arms of the immune system.1-3 Some conditions are caused mainly...
A Rotavirus Vaccine for Infants: The Asian Experience
Of all the enteric pathogens that infect young children, rotavirus is recognised as the leading cause of severe gastroenteritis worldwide. Rotavirus accounts for 20%...
Addressing Issues of Maldistribution of Health Care Workers
The movement of people from one place to another has shaped today’s political, social and economic world and continues to be a major influence...