Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a joint society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.To continue our discussion from last month on m…
PRK changes life, career of Air Force flight surgeon
This is one of the most engaging pieces written by an ophthalmologist regarding his refractive surgery experience. Yuri McKee describes the vagaries and attendant problems of wearing glasses in an F-15 and how refractive surgery eliminated those proble…
Interview: Avedro executives discuss FDA approval of cross-linking system
Ocular Surgery News: The ophthalmology community in the U.S. has been waiting for this approval for quite a while. Can you put this into perspective for ophthalmologists and discuss the importance of this particular approval? Rajesh K. Rajpal, MD: I…
Ladas Super Formula aims to improve refractive accuracy of cataract surgery
We have all seen it in our own patients: After a seemingly routine cataract surgery that is without complications, the patient ends up with a refractive miss. Even though we were aiming for a plano refraction, the patient is a diopter away from that. For a patient electing for cataract surgery alone, this is still a successful case because the patient was not electing for vision correction. But for those patients who are electing to pay out of pocket for treatment of astigmatism and a specific refractive outcome, being off (Read more...)
New devices offer potential of perfectly sized, shaped and centered CCC
Extracapsular cataract extraction was pioneered by Jacques Daviel in 1747. Even in those pioneering years, an anterior capsulotomy was required. In these early cases, the anterior capsule was torn open with a sharp instrument, the first cystotome. Albrecht von Graefe, in 1850, just over 100 years later, refined creation of the anterior capsular opening to a capsulectomy, using forceps to lacerate and remove a portion of the anterior capsule. In 1917, Ignacio Barraquer led ophthalmic surgeons away from extracapsular cataract extraction to intracapsular cataract extraction, and ICCE dominated over ECCE (Read more...)
Elderly woman presents with progressive vision decline in left eye
A 76-year-old woman presented to the New England Eye Center with a 3-month history of floaters and blurred vision in her left eye. Her medical history was significant for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypothyroidism and recent aortic valve replacement …