Lynda Charters

During a presentation at the Vit-Buckle Society meeting in Las Vegas, Sally S. Ong, MD, highlighted a new study of patients who underwent primary repair of uncomplicated RRDs at the Wilmer Eye Institute to examine the baseline, surgical and postoperative characteristics that affect best-corrected VA outcomes.

As technology advances, innovations increase physician capabilities.

A large cohort study found that there is no association between the first mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations and acute RVO.

Daraius Shroff, MD, developed the Triple S toolkit for hAM grafting for use during vitreoretinal surgery, which he described at the 2023 Vit-Buckle Annual Society meeting.

The study compared eyes with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) that were treated with laser and age-matched control eyes without ROP.

The ESSENCE-2 study showed a significantly greater reduction in the total corneal fluorescein staining (tCFS) score.

One way to advance the current understanding of GA is to study how disease progression varies among related individuals.

Eye rubbing is a common practice, but one that can cause a number of problems.

Intimate partner violence awareness in ophthalmologists can be heightened thanks to a recent study.

SMSGOP and SMGOP are two models of artificial intelligence that can predict progression of Graves’ orbitopathy.

Retinal redetachment can occur frequently in eyes that underwent repair of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRDs) after infectious endophthalmitis.

Despite the injection of intravitreal antibiotics at the end of corrective surgery, delayed-onset endophthalmitis can develop in patients who sustained open globe injuries.

Alcohol abuse is associated with significant alterations to corneal endothelial density and morphology.

Lotilaner ophthalmic solution, 0.25% is the first drug designed to treat and target the underlying cause of Demodex blepharitis, according to investigators.

Many patients with diabetes can be stabilized with anti-VEGF biologics.

Ophthalmologists have discussions about driving with glaucoma patients.

Deep learning analysis of fundus photographs has the potential to assess neurologic dysfunction in individuals with Parkinson’s disease.

Patients treated with azithromycin did not have a higher incidence of gastrointestinal adverse events.

Learning more about the early AD stages, when brain damage is limited, should allow early and more efficacious treatment, and improvements in imaging may be able to pick up changes earlier.

In a keynote lecture at the 14th Annual Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology in Lisbon, Hendrik Scholl, MD, co-founder and director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, discussed its mission to unravel the mysteries of vision and human eye disease.

Maternal pregnancy-related smoking was measured using key metrics: Provider or self-reported smoking during pregnancy and cotinine and hydroxycotinine in neonatal blood.

Hurdles include limited space, handling thin sclera, choosing the right site.

Procedure integrates femto, phaco in one instrument to address issues.

Industry leaders view pegcetacoplan as most important retinal technology in 10 years.

While obesity has been associated with increased IOPs, the results to now have been inconclusive. Researchers investigated the IOP among groups with different combinations of obesity status and metabolic health status.

ICLs offer a strong surgical correction option for some patients.

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