Lindstrom’s Perspective

I have shared my thoughts on climate change and plastic pollution twice before in Healio | OSN. For in-depth comments, I direct any interested readers to my Aug. 10, 2022, and March 25, 2024, Lindstrom’s Perspective.

As discussed in last issue’s Lindstrom’s Perspective, some ocular media opacities warrant surgical intervention and some do not.

Vitreous opacities have many names including vitreous floaters and mouches volantes.

The cover story in this issue of Healio | OSN provides a comprehensive review of obstructive sleep apnea and its potential impact on the body and eye. I will emphasize a few of the extensive points discussed.

Presbyopia is the second most common refractive error in the United States, with about 128 million of 335 million Americans, or 38% of the population, being presbyopic. Myopia today is slightly higher at 42% of the population.

In this issue of Healio | OSN, a roundtable discusses the management of epithelial ingrowth after LASIK, neurotrophic keratitis and Demodex blepharitis with marginal keratitis.

Retinopathy of prematurity occurs primarily in low birth weight premature infants who are admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit and require oxygen supplementation.

Neurotrophic keratitis is well explored in the cover story of this issue of Healio | OSN.

The first commercial phacoemulsification procedure with Charles Kelman, MD, as the inventor and surgeon occurred in 1967 in the United States.

According to several sources, infectious keratitis is the fifth leading cause of blindness in the world.