The Cleveland Clinic’s Cole Eye Institute will receive a $31 million donation from Jeffrey and Patricia Cole to help expand the institute, according to a Cleveland Clinic press release.The institute, originally funded with a gift from Jeffrey Cole in 1999, will add a new building named the Jeffrey and Patricia Cole building. This will help the institute “expand its clinical and surgical capabilities,” the release said.
More adults in the United States reported issues with health status and material hardships than adults from eleven other high-income countries, according to results from a 2016 survey published in Health Affairs.“Surveys of patients’ experiences with health care services can provide a valuable window into how well a nation’s health system is meeting the needs of its population,” Robin Osborn, vice president of the International Program in Health Policy and Practice Innovations at the Commonwealth Fund, and colleagues wrote.
Most patients who present with painless, progressive loss of vision and metamorphopsia, with evidence of subretinal hemorrhages and exudates in the macular area on fundus examination, have wet or exudative age-related macular degeneration.Experienced clinicians know that, in the U.S., horses are much more common in the countryside than zebras, and wet AMD is a horse, not a zebra. The same clinicians also know that zebras occasionally present in their clinics, and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV), first described by Dr. Lawrence Yannuzzi in 1982, is one of the zebras to rule (Read more...)
A qualidade da visão após a cirurgia é o fator único mais importante a influenciar a satisfação do paciente. Assim, o cirurgião oftálmico precisa trabalhar para atender as expectativas do paciente que alcançaram valores elevados, quando comparadas ao passado.O astigmatismo significativo da córnea pode degradar a qualidade da visão e levar à insatisfação do paciente. No trabalho pré-operatório é importante identificar e separar o astigmatismo lenticular do astigmatismo da córnea. Além disso, o cirurgião precisa considerar tanto o astigmatismo anterior como o posterior da córnea ao calcular a potência da (Read more...)
La calidad de la visión luego de la cirugía es el factor más importante que impacta en la satisfacción del paciente. Por consiguiente, el cirujano oftálmico necesita lograr esta calidad a fin de satisfacer las expectativas del paciente que son cada vez más exigentes.Un astigmatismo corneal notable puede degradar la calidad de la visión y producir la insatisfacción del paciente. Es importante identificar y diferenciar el astigmatismo lenticular del corneal en el estudio preoperatorio. Además, el cirujano debe considerar el astigmatismo corneal tanto de la cara anterior como de la (Read more...)
With a larger number of people living longer, it is no surprise to see a similar rise in the number of patients having cataract surgery — currently around 3.3 million per year, which is expected to grow to nearly 5 million by 2030. And with one of the most historic presidential elections finally serving up the next U.S. president, many of our patients fear what lies ahead for their health care needs. At least currently, our patients are about to go through another open enrollment associated with the Affordable Care (Read more...)