Optometry

ARVO's Web seminars are an opportunity to acquire the best practices and practical tools from experienced professionals without leaving one's office or home.

Grafting a thicker amniotic membrane onto the ocular surface may be a promising solution for patients who experience graft failure or require ocular surface reconstruction after penetrating keratoplasty.

In a retrospective chart review that compared three of the most current phacoemulsification technologies for their performance and outcomes during cataract surgery and day 1 after surgery, the Infiniti OZIL-IP outperformed the WhiteStar Signature Ellipsis-FX and the Stellaris System with respect to less phaco needle time, increased followability and stability, less chatter, and less change in corneal pachymetry after surgery that resulted in better day 1 visual outcomes.

Implantation of a toric IOL in eyes with low pre-existing cylinder has benefit for significantly reducing postoperative astigmatism, but surgeons should be mindful of the importance of minimizing surgically induced astigmatism when using a low-cylinder power toric IOL.

The femtosecond laser brings a new level of precision to multiple steps of cataract surgery and improves the accuracy, predictability, and safety of patient outcomes.

Myopic LASIK using a 400-Hz excimer laser is safe, effective, and predictable whether done with a wavefront-guided or wavefront-optimized technique.

A new Web site helps subscribers prepare for their OKAP exams, written boards and recertification for boards.

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When visiting a new client, the author says one of his favorite things to do is conduct quality checks of completed eyeglass orders.

Pre-existing astigmatism can be corrected using LRIs and toric IOLs for patients who undergo cataract surgery.

One of the key themes for this year's meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology was nano technology and regenerative medicine.

A series of courses aim to help clinicians and eye researchers keep up with state-of-the-art approaches to the design, construction, and execution of clinical trials.

The key to the best visual results after cataract and refractive surgery rests with optimizing the ocular surface in patients with dry eye disorders prior to the procedure.

The most important information the author learns occurs when she has the opportunity to exchange ideas with fellow managers and administrators.

Many children, returning to school this fall, will lack the tools that can help them perform at their optimal level: a professional eye exam and glasses, if necessary.

An intrastromal procedure performed using a femtosecond laser fulfills many of the criteria for an ideal presbyopic treatment.

Stem cell-based therapy is an important potential treatment to restore vision in patients with a wide range of retina disease.

The XXIX Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons will be held in the historic European capital city of Vienna from Sept. 17 to Sept. 21.

Deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty seems to be safe and effective according to results of a new study.

Robert Freedland, MD, who works at Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse, Wis., is a stock market investor for the past 43 years.

Sensory substitution devices are in development as vision restoration technology for the blind, but a lack of accepted standards for screening users and evaluating their performance represents an important impediment to the ultimate of clinical success of these platforms.

Ophthalmologists have unique needs when shopping for electronic health record systems.

Quantitative in vivo assessment of retinal blood flow attained with ultra-high-speed swept source/Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography could be beneficial for assessing pathologic changes in ocular diseases associated with abnormalities in retinal blood flow.

Several modalities currently exist for the delivery of chemotherapy for retinoblastoma in children.

Presbyopic spectacle correction is not necessary when performing visual field testing using automated perimetry in pseudophakic patients with a diffractive aspheric multifocal IOL implanted.