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

Functional lens regeneration was achieved in infants undergoing surgery for congenital cataract using a novel minimally invasive technique that maintains lens capsule integrity and preserves lens epithelial stem cells.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Research in an animal model has shown that pregnancy can increase accumulation and activation of cells and functions associated with ectopic lymphoid structures (ELS) in Sjögren’s syndrome.

Patients who have uveitis-glaucoma-hyphema (UGH) syndrome caused by the complications after implantation of an anterior chamber IOL fared worse with final visual outcomes than patients who also develop UGH but have other lenses implanted.

A systemic review of the peer-review literature has shown modern LASIK surgery is more effective and produces better outcomes than has been reported historically, said Kerry Solomon, MD.

“As we all know, errors in those initial measurements can have a negative effect on refractive outcomes,” Robert J. Cionni, MD, said. “Our goal is to get it right the first time.”

The Binkhorst Lecture and Medal have been conferred since 1975 on “an individual whose career has made significant contributions to the science and practice of ophthalmology and established that person among the world’s most prominent ophthalmologists.”

This year’s American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) opening session zeroed in on one message: Members need to continue to be involved to ensure the society can meet members’ needs-from education to influence in the federal government.

Steven Dell, MD, and Steve Schallhorn, MD, compared the visual and subjective outcomes in patients who wear contact lenses with those who underwent wavefront-guided LASIK for the correction of myopia and astigmatism.

Though the main benefit of collagen corneal crosslinking is to stop progression of keratoconus, it is not the sole benefit, said Theo Seiler, MD, PhD (Greece) here during Cornea Day at ASCRS 2016.

Patient compliance (and non-compliance, as the case may be) is nothing new when discussing glaucoma. Nor are the multiple devices and systems previously developed or under investigation with the hope of improving compliance, said Richard Lewis, MD, speaking here at Glaucoma Day at ASCRS 2016.

Alex Huang, MD, PhD, is the winner of the Heidelberg Engineering Xtreme Research Award 2016 for his research on aqueous angiography and OCT structural analysis of outflow pathways.

Clinical researchers involved with ProgSTAR-believed to be the largest natural history study launched, to date, for Stargardt disease-are sharing interim findings during ARVO 2016.

Results from a series of preclinical studies are providing proof of principle that gene targeting using CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technology can prevent or treat glaucoma associated with mutations in the myocilin (MYOC) gene.

IOL implantation was associated with more inflammation and slightly more visual obscuration in 120 children age 2 or younger undergoing bilateral cataract surgery. However, the rate of glaucoma was similar compared with an aphakic group.

Patients with accommodating IOLs implanted using a femtosecond laser-assisted procedure or manual cataract removal had similar excellent visual outcomes.

For Joshua Mali, MD, the road to becoming an ophthalmologist started when he was just a teenager. When Dr. Mali was about 14 years old, his family took a trip to Nicaragua with Health for Humanity, and that was the beginning of what would be a decades-long service-oriented passion for Dr. Mali.