Ocular Surface Disease

Clinicians discover the ptotic facial side of the face was the nondominant side of the face in a recent study.

Why low-lying lids can affect much more than patients' visual field, with implications for visual quality and their self-esteem.

Patients are at risk for developing severe dry eye and ocular surface disease.

Learn about a novel procedure using a template prosthesis to facilitate intraoperative adjustment during external levator resection ptosis repair.

During a presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting in Denver, Yuichi Hori, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that taping the top border of a surgical mask to a clinicians’ skin reduces the potential for ocular surface damage resulting from expirations of air reaching the ocular surface during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Severe ocular involvement demands inflammation control

A team of investigators from Pohang University of Science and Technology has found that conjunctival goblet cell examination is important for the precise diagnosis and effective treatment of ocular surface diseases; however, CGC examination has not been possible until now due to lack of non-invasive devices.

Cynthia Matossian, MD, shares her thoughts on the premium patient "experience" or "journey," emphasizing the outcomes of patient experiences.

Dongkyun Lang, a biomedical engineering and optical sciences professor, is developing a way to diagnose and treat corneal ulcers that is eight times cheaper and 20 times faster than today's gold standard.

Cynthia Matossian, MD, FACS, ABES, points out that there has been confusing news lately about what is (and is not) covered by Medicare when it comes to in-office treatments for meibomian gland dysfunction.

Oxymetazoline hydrochloride has been recognized by the publication as a winner of its Best of Beauty Breakthrough Award.

Nathan Hall, BS, MS, presents research on how epidemiologic analysis of malignant ocular surface tumors found significant differences in geographic prevalence rates in the United States.

The development of involutional ptosis may be a multifactorial process, researchers have found.

Three cases demonstrate value of new tools, technology for surgeons.

According to investigators, aqueous humor analysis differentiated the tumors in patients.

New data finds that preoperative ptosis occurs commonly and more often in patients with reactive blepharospasm or enophthalmos.

Investigators find that long-term ocular complications require further observation.

Cynthia Matossian, MD, FACS, ABES, takes a look at the recent, sudden change in low-payment reimbursement by Medicare Administrative Contractors for LipFlow and MGD procedure codes.

Researchers consider frequency and factors in etiology of complication

Topical oxymetazoline HCL ophthalmic solution 0.1% (RVL-1201, RVL Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) has the potential to treat patients with varying degrees of severity of acquired ptosis compared with vehicle.

Unilateral ptosis can be the first symptom related to other causes that are traumatic, myogenic, neurogenic, or mechanical in nature.

Why instillation of topical corticosteroids may be associated with greater ptosis and higher rate of failed ptosis repair

Investigators searched PubMed over the past 2 decades for clinical trials on eyelid ptosis using the terms blepharoptosis or upper eyelid ptosis or eyelid ptosis” and the filters “randomized controlled trial (RCT), clinical trial, and humans.”

Symptomatic, psychosocial burdens in participants .

Researchers conducted a retrospective observational study to assess the corneal refractive changes induced by surgery to correct ptosis using Fourier harmonic analysis.