Cataract Surgery News

ORLANDO — At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Michael Patterson, DO, discusses the importance of balancing volume and quality patient care.

ORLANDO — At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Lisa Arbisser, MD, discusses the importance of being a patient advocate and early adopter of new techniques.

ORLANDO — Using surgical videos, Steven G. Safran, MD, gives a comprehensive overview of pearls he has learned in performing the Yamane double-needle intrascleral haptic fixation technique in his presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is.

ORLANDO — At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Cathleen M. McCabe, MD, shares a learning experience she had while teaching a wet lab at the meeting on how to perform the Yamane fixation technique.

Patients who underwent cataract surgery showed increased anterior chamber depth postoperatively, which correlated with refractive error.

ORLANDO — At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Thomas A. Oetting, MD, from the ophthalmology and visual sciences department at the University of Iowa, shares his five pearls for learning a new cataract surgery technique.

ORLANDO — At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Luke Lenci, MD, discusses how to make the transition from residency to effective practice.

MARRAKECH, Morocco — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Winter Meeting, Marie-José Tassignon, MD, PhD, speaks about her recent discoveries concerning the anterior vitreolenticular interface, an entity described in the 19th century but only recently resumed as a topic for research. She discusses the implications of these discoveries for cataract surgery.

MARRAKECH, Morocco — Implantation of an anterior chamber iris-claw phakic IOL effectively improves vision in patients with keratoconus and pellucid marginal degeneration, according to one surgeon.

MARRAKECH, Morocco — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Winter Meeting, Laurent Gauthier, MD, presents a new approach to IOL power calculation based on multiparametric analysis of the 4- to 8-week postoperative refractive error of the first operated eye.