Cataract Surgery News

ORLANDO — In this surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Gabriel B. Figueiredo, MD, of São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, shows a routine phaco case in which he uses a pre-slice technique for lens removal.

ORLANDO — In this surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Richard J. Mackool Jr., MD, FACS, shares his surgical technique and tools he uses during a routine phaco case.

ORLANDO — In this surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Ashraf Armia, MD, shows his technique of performing cataract surgery using Alcon’s Centurion Vision phacoemulsification system in a routine case.

ORLANDO — In a surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Mitchell C. Shultz, MD, shares a technique for cataract surgery with the Bausch + Lomb Stellaris Elite platform, implanting the enVista preloaded IOL.

ORLANDO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Uday Devgan, MD, discusses techniques for dealing with posterior polar cataracts.

Virginia lawmakers passed legislation to expand the optometric scope of practice to now include the use of Nd:YAG, selective laser trabeculoplasty and laser peripheral iridotomy.

When I make a cataract surgery referral for a patient on an ocular hypertensive medication for glaucoma, my referral letter always states, “Cataract surgery with MIGS (minimally invasive glaucoma surgery).”

Cataract surgery improved visual acuity for patients with intermediate age-related macular degeneration and neovascular AMD, according to a study published in the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology.

Ultra-widefield imaging systems have been widely adopted in optometry, and for very good reasons.

NEW YORK — If patients are unhappy after their cataract surgery, surgeons need to know how to respond and how to remedy the common causes of dissatisfaction, according to a presentation at OSN New York.