bCASE PRESENTATION/bbr /A 49-year-old, soon-to-be-retired police officer is
referred to you for a cataract evaluation. He complains of
severe glare when driving at night. The patient states that
he has never worn glasses and hopes to mini…
Managing the Unhappy Cataract Patient
In this era of immediate gratification and premium
IOLs, patients have become more demanding. The
following scenario is common. A postoperative
cataract patient presents with a visual acuity of
20/20- and a manifest refraction of -0.25 D. Upon…
Four Errors in Prescribing Antibiotics
Topical and/or intracameral antibiotics play a key
role in any strategy designed to maximize
endophthalmitis prophylaxis. The optimal strategy
for reducing the incidence of endophthalmitis
always includes the two classic goals of (1) decreasin…
CHIEF MEDICAL EDITOR’S PAGE
Last year was an outstanding one for ophthalmology.
I spent time over the holidays thinking
of the best of 2010. My thoughts were
guided by Gillian McDermott’s excellent article
on the subject that appeared in emCataract and Refractive Surg…
Prevention of Endophthalmitis
Endophthalmitis is an uncommon complication
of cataract surgery, with rates ranging from
0.07% to 0.13%, and more recently as high as
0.38%, as reported in a multicenter ESCRS
study.sup1-3/sup Because of the devastating nature of endophtha…
10 Years of Tecnis
It has been a decade since we surgeons first realized
that IOL optics could reduce or eliminate spherical
aberration (SA) to restore a youthful quality of
vision for pseudophakes. That discovery, which led
to the introduction of the first succ…