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In a randomized study, patients receiving bupivocaine had lower pain scores than the control group in the first 30 minutes after surgery. However, other factors may also play a role.

Lens extraction may have a role in reducing IOP in patients with primary angle-closure or primary angle-closure glaucoma.

Remember enduring those seemingly endless years of residency and fellowship training? Now, imagine trying to earn that badge of honor while having a child. Well, two of them. Sonia Rana, MD, managed to do just that while still graduating on time.

The drug ONO-9054 led to a greater reduction in IOP and a longer duration of reduction in a small clinical trial compared with latanoprost.

Conducting a good history and a careful exam can usually lead clinicians to the right diagnosis and treatment in cases of severe microbial keratitis.

Ganciclovir gel is effective for herpes simplex epithelial keratitis, and emerging evidence shows it also can be used to treat other corneal disease.

Post-keratoplasty fungal infections are becoming increasing more common, and the risk is significantly higher after DSEK compared with PK.

Acanthamoeba keratitis is a vision-threatening disease most frequently seen in contact lens wearers. The disease mimics numerous diseases, and early recognition is needed to achieve optimal visual outcomes.

The causes of infections associated with penetrating keratoplasty are evolving, but no matter what the etiology, these infections consistently require vigilance and aggressive treatment.

Dry eye disease is one of the most common conditions encountered by eye care professionals, yet measurement of tear volume remains difficult. A newly developed tool is reliable and straightforward to use.

Managing your team was, and continues to be, the biggest challenge you ever faced.

This is a question we often get from doctors. It is an interesting question, because there are a couple of opinions about what the right thing to do is. There is never a cookie-cutter answer.

Commercial contact lenses have been around since the 1970s, but it took a bold entrepreneur named Ron Hamilton to push the marketplace forward.

Despite frequent disregard of contact lens hygiene recommendations and an abundance of Acanthamoeba spp. in local drinking water, contact lens wearers in Madrid, Spain, appear to be avoiding keratitis, researchers say.

Gene therapy first hit the radar of retinal physicians in 2008, when three independent research groups reported that patients with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare genetic retinal disease, had been successfully treated using gene therapy with adeno-associated virus (AAV).

Steve Arshinoff, MD, FRCSC, of the University of Toronto, outlines the proper dosage and administration technique for intracameral moxifloxacin during cataract surgery.

While many previous efforts had been made to develop a pharmacologic agent that promoted enzymatic vitreolysis, ocriplasmin was the first to induce both synchesis and syneresis without adversely affecting the retina.

An approach is described for completing cortex removal and IOL implantation after intraoperative 180° zonular dialysis.

Reverse optic capture may be a viable option for addressing a decentered single-piece IOL as the result of a compromised posterior capsular or a posterior capsular tear.

Here's a snapshot of what got attendees most excited at ASCRS 2016.

From blueberries for dry eye, to advances in "robotic" vision, here are some highlights from ARVO 2016.

Fluorescein angiography as a diagnostic tool is more than 60 years old, but recent advances in technology have refined and improved upon previously available imaging techniques to give eye care professionals a broader window into the retinal pigment epithelium.

Manufactured by Second Sight Medical Products and co-invented by Mark Humayun of the USC Eye Institute, the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2013 to treat adult patients with advanced retinitis pigmentosa (RP); it had been approved in Europe two years earlier.

Corneal inlays are a newer option for correction of decreased near vision in presbyopic individuals who desire improved spectacle-independent vision at all distances.

There may be a correlation between a person’s preferred sleep position and the health of his or her meibomian glands, said David Alevi, MD. Speaking at ASCRS 2016, Dr. Alevi said meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is thought to be a leading cause of dry eye, and often presents with similar symptoms.

NASA’s Vision Impairment and Intracranial Pressure (VIIP) project was started after NASA realized many astronauts return from space with vision problems, and these problems may last for years after mission completion.

Perhaps none so much as Graham D. Barrett, MD, a “pre-eminent expert in cataract and refractive surgery, and corneal and anterior segment disorders and surgery,” who was chosen to deliver the 2016 Charles D. Kelman Innovator Lecture at this year’s American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.