Oliver Kuhn-Wilken, OD

A tear of the posterior capsule is a common intraoperative complication and will occur occasionally even with the most experienced surgeons. If you comanage cataract patients, you have seen a broken capsule.

What are the odds of a really serious complication from cataract surgery, a complication that would permanently decrease vision?

“The one who knows when not to act is wise,” the playwright Euripides wrote over 2,400 years ago. Are you wise enough to know the situations in which you should not send a patient with a cataract for surgery?

Last fall, we discussed unique issues that face firearm hunters when they’re considering their best refractive target after cataract surgery. Today, we’ll cover a related topic: How to counsel a bowhunter about their ideal refractive target.

The color of a blue iris is not produced by so-called pigment coloring — the simple form of selective color absorption that produces the hue of everyday objects like blueberries or blue jeans.

Most optometrists are familiar with pseudoexfoliation, a flaking anterior lens capsule that signals a higher risk for glaucoma, loose zonules and even cardiovascular disease and dementia, according to Katsi and colleagues.

After my dad got cataract surgery with monofocal IOLs aimed for plano, he wasn’t supposed to be able to read without glasses. And yet, to his utter delight, he could.

“Ultra eye,” more formally known as “ultramarathon-induced corneal edema,” is a rare but fascinating condition that presents only in athletes during very long-distance events.

The last place anyone wants to have an ophthalmic emergency is standing on top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, at 19,341 feet above sea level and days from any medical care.