Ophthalmology News

As cornea specialists, we talk a lot about how to get timely referrals of keratoconus patients from optometrists and ophthalmologists who don’t perform cross-linking. But it is also important to recognize our role in transitioning the patient back to the referring doctor. To me, there are three key elements of a successful handoff.

Physicians treating Medicare patients are staring down the barrel of five consecutive years of cuts to their reimbursement rates.

A long time ago, my kids taught me that the importance of pain depends upon whether you are the one giving it or the one receiving it.

Flash photos typically produce a red reflection in people’s eyes, but sometimes that reflection can appear white or gray, which is known as leukocoria.

Floaters are common and do not cause any issue for the vast majority of people. However, a small subset of patients, often young male patients, can be greatly burdened by them, despite their vitreous and retina looking essentially normal.

Vitreous floaters are a common ocular condition, affecting up to 76% of the population, according to Webb and colleagues.

A 23-year-old man was referred by an outside optometrist to the retina service at Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston for evaluation of 2 weeks of bilateral “flashes and zigzags.”

Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.

Last month, I outlined my philosophy for treating not just dry eye disease, or DED, but pretty much everything there is to be treated in eye care.