FYI
Prem Kumar
Singh, MOpt
Sr. Consultant: Orthoptics and Binocular Vision
Head: Optometry Sciences
(Dr Shroff's Charity Eye
Hospital)
Volunteer Faculty: Orbis International
Head of Education committee: IOA
Mentor: VT Fellowship, ASCO
From: Umang Mathur [mailto:um...@sceh.net]
Sent: Monday, May 2, 2022 3:34 PM
To: 'SCEH Consultants'; 'prem'; 'Anil Tiwari'; 'Akhil Varshney'; 'Ria
Ratna'
Subject: FW: LVPEI Research papers - April 2022
fyi
Hello Alumni,
Just to let you
know that we have a new newsletter highlighting a selection of the scientific
output from LVPEI. If you find this interesting, please do subscribe—and
encourage others to subscribe as well.
Thanks,
Tejah
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Welcome
L V Prasad Eye Institute is a global centre for
ophthalmic research and practice. Its clinicians and research
scientists fuse basic and applied research that translates
into better outcomes for patients, the community, and the world.
Every month, our teams publish reports, studies,
reviews, or provide commentary on key issues in vision care that is
of interest to the eye health sector, and to the scientific
community. This is a brand
new mailer that highlights three or four such
papers and brings them to your inbox on the last Friday of every
month.
We trust you will find this mailer informative and
useful. If you do, please don't forget to
subscribe to this mailing list--and do encourage others to
subscribe as well.
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Biofilm impacts
endophthalmitis management
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Vitreoretinal
diseases/Microbology
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A
recent paper by Dr Vivek Dave and others highlights the complexity
introduced to endophthalmitis
management by biofilm. The authors note the
importance of identifying biofilm producing organisms early and
tackling the infection with a tailor-made treatment strategy... Read more
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Fungal mycobiome
and the eye: a review
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A
paper by Dr Sisinthy Shivaji reviews extant literature on cultivable fungi
of the human eye identified using conventional culture; enumerates the mycobiome
using “Next Generation Sequencing”; and highlights the dysbiosis in an
infected eye... Read more
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Corneal tissue
from elderly donors: a commentary
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Drs
Aravind Roy and Sujata Das comment on the underutilization
of elderly
corneal tissues despite better utilization data,
improvements in feasibility due to lamellar keratoplasty, and
emergency-use reliability of glycerol-preserved corneal tissue for
tectonic keratoplasty... Read more
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Photo credits: 1) Biofilm, picture by KoiQuestion 2)
Fig.1 from the review, "Fungi of the human eye: Culture to
mycobiome" by Shivaji et al. 3) Donor rim,
Photo by Leon Neal, UK, for WSD 2018 photo competition.
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