Ophthalmology News

A 32-year-old woman was referred by the rheumatology service for a second opinion regarding high-risk medication use evaluation.

Inflammation is associated with every surgical procedure.

For many years, I have seen older patients with obvious meibomian gland dysfunction at the lid margin, often combined with blepharitis. Their gland openings are problematic, but when we do meibography, the internal glands are intact.

Over the course of the past decades, our IOL technology has continued to improve, particularly with the ability to address presbyopia.

Don’t try to convince yourself otherwise. We are all guilty. Much of our clinical practice of eye care is deeply entrenched in habit — and for good reason.

The goals of postoperative anti-inflammatory medications are to reduce pain, discomfort and inflammation and to prevent cystoid macular edema and prolonged or rebound iridocyclitis following cataract surgery.

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.

Inflammation is a common but treatable complication of cataract surgery.

As promised, here is the fourth installment of the dry eye disease “Back to Basics” series requested by an audience member at a dinner presentation I gave last winter.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from OSN New York, Matt Jensen, MBA, discusses the ethics and economics of interventional glaucoma.