Cataract Surgery News

NEW YORK — During her presentation at OSN New York 2019, Lisa Nijm, MD, JD, discusses the importance of obtaining informed consent from all premium IOL patients and being methodical, considerate and complete in all communication leading up to surgery.

NEW YORK — In his presentation at OSN New York 2019, John P. Berdahl, MD, FACS, reviews premium IOL options and gives surgical tips for dealing with patients with irregular stigmatism.

NEW YORK — John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, discusses premium lens options for astigmatism management during his presentation at OSN New York 2019. Increasing premium lens adoption among patients not only increases patient satisfaction but also offsets the impact of increased costs and decreased reimbursements, according to Hovanesian.

NEW YORK — In her presentation at OSN New York 2019, Cynthia A. Matossian, MD, FACS, discusses her study evaluating the use of LipiFlow thermal pulsation therapy (Johnson & Johnson Vision) prior to cataract surgery in patients with meibomian gland disease. Treatment affected the axis and magnitude of astigmatism, which often precipitated a change in the surgical treatment plan, she said.

NEW YORK — Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD, of Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island, discusses the advantages of using intrastromal limbal relaxing incisions in the approach to astigmatism management during his presentation at OSN New York 2019.

NEW YORK — In his presentation at OSN New York 2019, Uday Devgan, MD, explains the pros and cons of treating astigmatism with paired full-thickness phaco incisions.

NEW YORK —In her presentation at OSN New York 2019, Elizabeth Yeu, MD, reviews the growing field of tools for calculating and managing astigmatism.

NEW YORK — In his presentation at OSN New York 2019, William B. Trattler, MD, discusses how to avoid problems after both manual and femtosecond astigmatic keratotomy.

The latest issue of the Video Journal of Cataract, Refractive and Glaucoma Surgery, whose mission is to advance the knowledge and surgical training of eye surgeons through video-based education, is now online.

NEW YORK — In his presentation at OSN New York 2019, Ashvin Agarwal, MD, shows a number of challenging cataract surgery cases in which there is no capsular support, demonstrating techniques such as the handshake, scaffold, glued IOL and single-pass four-throw pupilloplasty. – by David W. Mullin