Patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration were willing to opt for a higher treatment burden, which included regular intravitreal injections at short intervals and long periods of waiting, treatment and traveling, to prevent worsening o…
BASSANO DEL GRAPPA, Italy — Iris hooks are a helpful and versatile tool in case of cataract surgery with narrow pupils, according to one surgeon speaking at the Bassano Ophthalmology Meeting.“There are cases where neither the preoperative administration of NSAIDs to reduce prostaglandin production nor the intraoperative use of mydriatics, including the new intracameral mydriatics, is sufficient to dilate the pupil to a safe size for surgery,” Alessandro Franchini, MD, said.
BASSANO DEL GRAPPA, Italy — Matteo Forlini, MD, announced the ninth edition of the Mediterretina Club meeting will be held in Parma, Italy, May 11-13, 2017. Meeting topics will span both surgical and medical retina, and there will be a special homage to the late Cesare Forlini, MD, who founded the Mediterretina Club with Anastasios Nikolakopoulos, MD, and Khaled El-Rakhawy, MD. For more information on the meeting, please visit Healio.com/OSN.
AMD risk was significantly higher in those who had worked outside or spent long hours in the sun earlier in life; current sun exposure did not affect risk, however. Medscape Medical News
A simplified technique that uses a single suture iris-to-capsulorrhexis fixation for early or mild in-the-bag IOL subluxation in pseudoexfoliation may be less traumatic and invasive than other methods, according to a study.Patients can experience sublu…
A 61-year-old Caucasian woman was referred for neuro-ophthalmology evaluation at Lahey Medical Center for decreased vision associated with pain in the left eye.The patient’s medical history was significant for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypothyroidism and a pericardial cyst. She also had an elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) level discovered incidentally 20 years ago, for which work-up by an outside rheumatologist was unrevealing. She had an acute right-sided hearing loss 2 years ago; work-up through an outside otolaryngologist and imaging were also unrevealing. Her ocular history included a mild refractive error. She had no significant family ocular history.