Ike K. Ahmed, MD FRCSC

VIENNA — In this Healio Video Perspective, Ike K. Ahmed, MD, FRCSC, introduces the content of a course on secondary IOL implantation in absence of capsular support held at the ESCRS meeting.

In Canada, we have gained access to several new IOLs in recent months that help to round out our slate of lens offerings for patients in both the monofocal and presbyopia-correcting categories.

In this video on his presentation from the virtual American Glaucoma Society meeting, Ike K. Ahmed, MD, FRCSC, discusses the 5-year data comparing the Hydrus microstent (Ivantis) combined with cataract surgery and cataract surgery alone.

ORLANDO — At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Ike K. Ahmed, MD, discusses how to safely learn new techniques.

WASHINGTON ― At the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting here, Ike K. Ahmed, MD, discusses a study showing that an antioxidant supplement may improve ocular blood flow in glaucoma patients.

SAN FRANCISCO ― Ike K. Ahmed, MD, kicked off the Glaucoma 360: New Horizons Forum with the Drs. Henry and Frederick Sutro Memorial Lecture, in which he talked about interventional glaucoma treatment ushering in a new and disruptive approach to glaucoma treatment.

Clear corneal wound architecture has been largely perfected for simple surgical procedures such as uncomplicated cataract removal. Typically, these incisions require minimal manipulation and result in wounds with few reported adverse effects and only the occasional need for sutures or other intervention. However, for more complex surgical procedures, wounds are not always self-sealing due to a combination of factors such as more wound manipulation and larger or multiple incisions.

Glaucoma is usually a slowly blinding disease that is estimated to affect more than 60 million people worldwide and 2.2 million in the United States. Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness among African Americans, and it is six to eight times more common in this population segment compared with Caucasians. The World Health Organization ranks glaucoma as the second leading cause of blindness globally. Thus, glaucoma takes center stage as one of the important diseases that erodes human vision, and glaucoma management becomes a priority for all eye care specialists.

Although indirect gonioscopy is accepted as the current standard of care in angle evaluation, it does not appear to be performed regularly, even before laser or surgical glaucoma treatments, as found in recent studies.