23^rd Global Ophthalmologists Annual Meeting May 17-18, 2023 Prague, Czech Republic

Optometry is a healthcare profession that is independent, educational, and regulated (licensed/registered). Optometrists are the primary eye and visual system healthcare providers who offer comprehensive eye and vision care, including refraction and dispensing, detection/diagnosis and management of eye disease, and the rehabilitation of conditions of the visual system.

Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome, sometimes referred to as incontinentia pigmenti (IP), is a rare X-linked dominantly inherited condition that manifests at birth or in infancy. Eye problems, especially affecting the retina, are also included in it. Vascular occlusion is the cause of the retinal abnormalities, which also include exudative and tractional retinal detachments, haemorrhages, and neovascularization.

Keratoplasty involves surgery to replace a portion of your own cornea with donor corneal tissue. The clear, dome-shaped cornea makes up the surface of your eye. It is where light enters your eye and plays a significant role in your eye's capacity for sharp vision.

A collection of rare, non-inflammatory eye conditions known as corneal ectatic disorders or corneal ectasia are characterised by bilateral corneal thinning in the central, paracentral, or periphery. When the inner layers of your cornea weaken, it can alter form, thrust forward, and cause vision distortions, which is known as corneal ectasia.

Immunosuppressive drugs prevent the immune system from harming healthy tissues and cells. These medications are used by recipients of stem cell and organ transplants to reduce the risk of transplant rejection. As an alternative to or in addition to corticosteroids, immunosuppressive medications are being utilised more frequently to treat ocular inflammation.

A surgical treatment called refractive surgery is used to rectify the eye's refractive error (spectacle power). Usually, it is done to reduce or do away with the need for glasses and contact lenses. After the age of 18 to 21, it can be done on a patient with steady refraction.

A cataract is a hazy spot in the eye's lens that causes vision to deteriorate. Cataracts can harm one or both eyes and frequently progress slowly. Symptoms can include halos surrounding lights, faded colours, fuzzy or double vision, problems with bright lights, and difficulty seeing at night.

Myopia, a common visual disease known as near-sightedness, causes fuzzy vision for items that are far away but clear vision for nearby objects. It happens when light rays improperly bend (refract) due to the shape of your eye, focussing images in front of your retina rather than on your retina.

Other names for hypermetropia include hyperopia, long-sightedness, and far-sightedness. The eye disease known as hypermetropia is characterised by the formation of an image of a close object behind the retina. Instead of focusing on the retina in this instance, the light is concentrated behind the retina.

The gradual decrease of your eyes' capacity to focus on adjacent things is known as presbyopia. It's a normal, frequently frustrating aspect of becoming older. Early to mid-40s is often when presbyopia first becomes apparent, and it gets worse until about age 65.

A condition when the central nervous system's cells degenerate or stop functioning. In most cases, there is no therapy for neurodegenerative diseases, which often worsen with time. They could develop due to a tumour or stroke, or they might be inherited. Glaucoma, which has a neurodegenerative illness of both the eye and the brain, is characterised by progressive optic nerve degeneration.

There are various ocular disorders that cause neovascularization within the eye, the most prevalent of which are proliferative diabetic retinopathy, neovascular age-related macular degeneration, and retinopathy of prematurity.

Retinal cancer is called retinoblastoma. The light-sensitive lining in the back of the eye is called the retina. Retinal eye cells expand swiftly in the early stages of a baby's development and then halt. Retinoblastoma is a type of cancer that only occasionally results from one or more cells continuing to grow.

The term "blepharoptosis," also known as "ptosis of the eyelid," refers to the upper eyelid drooping, which typically happens as a result of a congenital or acquired dysfunction of the muscles that elevate the eyelid. Ptosis could be the first indication or symptom of a significant neurologic condition.

One of ophthalmology's most cutting-edge and developing subspecialties is still refractive surgery. With the introduction of tailored ablation, a paradigm shift has occurred: the main objective of refractive surgery is now to enhance or at the very least prevent degradation of the optical performance of the eye, rather than just do away with spectacles.

Acanthamoeba keratitis is a rare but deadly eye infection that can cause blindness or permanent vision loss. When Acanthamoeba infects the cornea, the clear outer layer of the eye, it known as Acanthamoeba keratitis.

Mesophilic, nonmotile, nonspore-forming, and anaerobic to aerotolerant bacteria are known as propionibacterium. They are pleomorphic rods. Due to their heterofermentative nature, they may metabolise lactate, pyruvate, polyols, and carbohydrates into a combination of propionate, acetate, succinate, and carbon dioxide.

It is widely acknowledged that prostaglandins (PGs) raise uveoscleral outflow, which lowers intraocular pressure. Interest in the uveoscleral outflow has grown as PGs are increasingly used to decrease intraocular pressure. Uveoscleral outflow travels to the posterior pole of the eye via the suprachoroidal space after passing via extracellular gaps in the ciliary muscle.

Argon Laser Trabeculoplasty is the most popular kind of laser procedure used to treat open-angle glaucoma. The goal of the procedure is to aid in the drainage of eye fluids and lower intraocular pressure, which can harm the optic nerve and result in blindness.

Subretinal hemorrhage is an accumulation of blood between the neurosensory retina and the Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) arising from the choroidal or retinal circulation.

It is characterised by abrupt, unilateral reduced vision, optic nerve dysfunction (decreased colour vision, decreased contrast/brightness perception, RAPD), and periorbital discomfort that gets worse with eye movement.