Finding the right candidate can help prevent unhappy refractive patients

WAILEA, Hawaii — Understanding which type of patients can benefit from multifocal premium IOLs can help the refractive surgeon avoid unhappy patients, according to a speaker.“[To begin to understand how to avoid unhappy patients], it starts with understanding the nature of lenses and what their optics look like,” Kevin M. Miller, MD, said here at the Hawaiian Eye 2015 meeting.

Sickle cell retinopathy associated with retinal thinning

WAILEA, Hawaii – Spectral domain optical coherence tomography may be used to gauge retinal anatomic changes in eyes with sickle cell retinopathy, a speaker said here.“If you feel you have a sickle cell patient and you want to determine how severe it is, one of the things that is useful is to look at the OCT and see if there is retinal thinning present,”Jennifer I. Lim, MD, said at Retina 2015. “Sixty percent of your sickle cell patients are going to have this, and most of the time they’re going (Read more...)