SAN FRANCISCO — Use of PRK to manage refractive errors after cataract surgery poses various challenges, a speaker said here.When encountering post-cataract refractive errors, the surgeon must know what he or she faces and be prepared to take action, Karl G. Stonecipher, MD, said during Cornea Day preceding the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.
A “modernized, integrated Medicare system” along with tax reforms could achieve $560 billion in federal deficit reductions over the next decade, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, DC-based think tank that actively promotes bipartisanship to address key challenges facing the United States.The report, authored by former Senate majority leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, MD; former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici and former Congressional Budget Office Director Alice Rivlin, PhD, resulted from a year of research and discussions with stakeholders.
Objective: To assess current clinical practice patterns for temporal artery biopsy (TAB) among clinicians in establishing the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis.Design: A survey was sent via e-mail using the Survey Monkey website (www.surveymonkey.com; accessed January 24, 2013). The survey initially was sent in July 2010 and continued through October 2010.Participants: The survey was sent via e-mail to the members and affiliates of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, and the American College of Rheumatology.Methods: Data from the survey were collected via Survey Monkey and data analysis was performed using the Fisher exact (Read more...)
Objective: To assess the prevalence of pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX) and its associations in a population-based setting.Design: Population-based, cross-sectional cohort study.Participants: Of 4403 eligible subjects with an age of ≥50 years, 3468 individuals (78.8%) participated in the Beijing Eye Study 2011 (mean age, 64.6±9.8 years; range, 50–93 years).Methods: All study participants underwent a detailed ophthalmologic examination. After medical pupil dilation, PEX was assessed by an experienced ophthalmologist using slit-lamp-based biomicroscopy.Main Outcome Measures: Prevalence and associations of PEX.Results: Slit-lamp examination results were available for 3022 study participants (87.1%). Definite pseudoexfoliation was observed in 72 of the 3022 subjects, with a prevalence of (Read more...)
Objective: The aims of this study were to assess (1) the relationship between interocular suppression and visual function in patients with anisometropic amblyopia, (2) whether suppression can be simulated in matched controls using monocular defocus or …
Purpose:
To evaluate the features of the lamina cribrosa (LC) in pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PXG) patients using enhanced depth imaging (EDI) of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD OCT). The results were compared with those of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).
Design:
Cross-sectional study.
Participants:
Patients with PXG (n = 21) and POAG (n = 35) matched for age and visual field mean deviation (VF MD).
Methods:
Participants were imaged using SD OCT. Lamina cribrosa thickness (LT) and anterior lamina cribrosa depth (ALD) were determined at 3 areas (mid superior, center, and mid inferior) by 2 examiners using an EDI mode (Read more...)