Intravitreal injections have become the mainstay for the treatment of a variety of retinal diseases including macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema.
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At the Kiawah Eye 2015 meeting, ophthalmologists gathered to debate and discuss hot topics in the management of cornea. Terry Kim, MD, and David T. Vroman, MD, moderated the session. The panelists included Derek W. DelMonte, MD, Keith A. Walter, MD, Do…
Momentary exposure to high-powered hand-held blue-light laser devices was associated with retinal injuries such as full-thickness macular hole, according to a study.“While spontaneous closure may occur in rare cases, most cases require early surgical intervention. Vitrectomy may be successful in closing the macular hole with visual acuity improvement in most of the cases,” the study authors said.
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/rnv8jx/wet_neovascular) has announced the addition of the “Wet (Neovascular / Exudative) Macular Degeneration-Pipeline Insights” report to their offering. Wet (Ne…
Bausch + Lomb has submitted a new drug application for Vesneo to the FDA, Nicox announced in a press release. Vesneo (latanoprostene bunod ophthalmic solution 0.024%) is a once-daily IOP-lowering single-agent eye drop for patients with open-angle glauc…
Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth, is an amazingly innovative surgeon and a prolific writer and educator. He has popularized the so-called “glued posterior chamber IOL technique.” In this technique, the haptics a of a posterior chamber IOL are placed in scleral tunnels under a scleral flap. The flap is glued in place with temporary fibrin glue under conjunctiva as well. It is really an intrascleral fixation of the posterior chamber IOL, and the glue is not critical. One could close the scleral flaps with sutures as an alternative because fibrin (Read more...)