WAILEA, Hawaii – At Hawaiian Eye 2015, Jack T. Holladay, MD, MSEE, discusses strategies for minimizing multifocal IOL dysphotopsias.
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VIDEO: Pearls for treating complicated pterygium surgery
WAILEA, Hawaii – At Hawaiian Eye 2015, John A. Hovanesian, MD, discusses his preferred techniques for performing complex pterygium surgery.
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VIDEO: Decentered multifocal IOLs must be addressed
WAILEA, Hawaii – At Hawaiian Eye 2015, Uday Devgan, MD, gives pearls for treating decentered multifocal IOLs.
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Genetic testing may be helpful in diagnosing glaucoma
WAILEA, Hawaii — Genetic testing can be useful in detecting glaucoma depending on the age of the patient at diagnosis, a speaker said here.“Why is family history important? Believe it or not, about 50% of glaucoma cases have family members with glaucoma. Patients with primary affected family members are more likely to have severe disease, to become blind and to benefit from gene testing for mutations in glaucoma genes,” Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, said at the Hawaiian Eye 2015 meeting.
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Vision gains, retinopathy level sustained in RIDE/RISE extension study
WAILEA, Hawaii – Vision gains achieved at the conclusion of the RIDE/RISE studies were maintained in patients with diabetic macular edema who were enrolled in a 2-year open-label extension study, Michael S. Ip, MD, told colleagues at Retina 2015. Improvements in retinopathy level were also sustained.After 3 years in RIDE/RISE, 500 participants entered an open-label extension in which Lucentis 0.5 mg (ranibizumab, Genentech) was given as needed in all three treatment arms according to re-treatment criteria. Mean follow-up time was 14.1 months, less than the anticipated 24 months due to (Read more...)
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OCT, visual field measurements useful for tracking glaucoma progression
WAILEA, Hawaii – Measuring visual field by optical coherence tomography can be useful in tracking glaucoma progression, according to a speaker here.“We now know that we can detect glaucoma earlier than we ever could before. What we are detecting structurally by OCT is really glaucoma,” Joel S. Schuman, MD, FACS, said at the Hawaiian Eye 2015 meeting.