EUROPEAN OPHTHALMIC REVIEW – VOLUME 13 – ISSUE 2 – WINTER 2019

Welcome to the winter edition of European Ophthalmic Review, including a variety of articles across the ophthalmic landscape including dry eye disease and glaucoma. We hope you enjoy these latest insights and find them useful and relevant to your practice. I would like to take this opportunity to announce my departure from the role of […]

Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy and is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide.1 Despite substantial improvements in technology, therapies, and our understanding of the disease, people continue to go blind from glaucoma due to inadequate disease control.1 Medical treatment is initiated with a single topical hypotensive agent, as recommended by the European Glaucoma Society.2 However, monotherapy […]

Dry eye is a common ocular condition that results in eye pain and discomfort, visual disturbance and substantially affects quality of life.1 The incidence of dry eye is markedly increasing due to the expansion in the global internet network.2 The use of video display terminals (VDT) and other devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones is now […]