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WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Ultra-widefield imaging with fluorescein angiography is a valuable tool for detecting retinal ischemia, according to a speaker here. “With widefield angiography, you can notate neovascularization, perfused areas, previously lasered areas and the area of ischemia,” Judy E. Kim, MD, said at Retina 2016. “What can we do with that information? It seems that the presence of retinal ischemia may correlate with development of diabetic macular edema … so the thought is that areas of ischemia causes increase in VEGF production, which then may play a role in development of diabetic macular edema.”

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WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — A new technique for the closure of corneal incisions uses a valve mechanism of shelved incision, according to a speaker here.“The idea is that the interior incision is closed up against the exterior incision and the pressure inside the eye keeps the wound self-sealing,” Kayman Naseri, MD, told colleagues at Hawaiian Eye.

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WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, presented his pearls for intraoperative aberrometry usage here at the Hawaiian Eye. “While intraoperative aberrometry is a highly valuable tool, we have to know what it can do, and we have to know what it cannot do. We have to know what it is designed to do, which is take in all the information that you have given it (even if some of it is flawed) and take us in a direction that we do not want to go,” he said.

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WAIKOLOA, Hawaii —When David F. Chang, MD, introduced his Refractive/Cataract section co-moderator, Roger F. Steinert, MD, he reminded the Hawaiian Eye audience of Steinert’s invaluable contribution to the annual meeting here.Before Steinert’s presentation “The Heat is On: Next Generation Presbyopia Implants,” Chang noted that Steinert is one of the founders of the Hawaiian Eye.

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