Negative dysphotopsia improves with occlusion of contralateral eye

ORLANDO — Samuel Masket, MD, has spent a lot of time thinking about negative dysphotopsia and how to improve it.
In a presentation at Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Masket related findings of a 25-eye pilot study in which patients with ND scotoma in one eye were treated with occlusion of the opposite eye.
Eighty percent of patients reported subjective improvement in their ND symptoms.
“In fact, we saw 65% subjective improvement, and the range was 50% to 95%,” Masket said. “Then we tested this in normal pseudophakes, (Read more...)

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