Research published in BMJ Open today has found that community care for routine monitoring of neovascular age-related macular degeneration can be just as effective as hospital-based care.
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The benefits, and limits, of practice task force committee work
“A camel is a horse designed by committee.” – Alec Issigonis
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Surgeons debate choices for preventing infection after cataract surgery
Prophylactic regimens for preventing infection after cataract surgery are effective, but choosing among the increasing number and combinations of washes, drops and injections is becoming more and more a matter of physician preference and physician deba…
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Premium IOL centration and patient suitability
Proper centration of premium IOLs — diffractive multifocal, moderate to high toric, and aspheric — is critical to achieve the maximum optical performance and to avoid unnecessary symptoms of halos, glare and “waxy vision.” To understand and use the optical principles involved with these complaints, we must review the angles of the eye.In Figure 1, we see a cross-section of the eye from above illustrating that the foveola is temporal to the optical axis of the eye by a nominal 5.2°. From the front view of the eye in Figure (Read more...)
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Nitric oxide-donating prostaglandin enhances physiological aqueous outflow
A novel pharmacologic agent reduces IOP by augmenting physiological aqueous outflow through the trabecular meshwork, according to one expert.Vesneo (latanoprostene bunod ophthalmic solution 0.024%) is a nitric oxide-donating prostaglandin F2 alpha anal…
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Man presents with persistent foreign body sensation and swollen eyelids
A 39-year-old Caucasian man was seen in the Cornea Service at the New England Eye Center with complaints of sore and swollen eyelids and foreign body sensation in both eyes for several months. The patient had a history of recurrent herpes zoster endoth…