Comanagement News

Patients with brain injury tend to have odd symptoms and feel like no one understands or is listening to them. Often, by the time they see me, they are petrified that their symptoms might last for the rest of their life.

Corneal ectasia such as keratoconus, keratoglobus and pellucid marginal degeneration are not as rare as once believed thanks to improved imaging techniques, but complications such as hydrops remain fairly rare.

Like 99% of optometric practices across the country, our office had to close its physical location for several weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to adapt to change and rewire itself. This rewiring happens throughout life but is particularly important after a traumatic brain injury.

by Christina Twardowski, OD, FAAO

Between 2006 and 2015, nearly 125,000 patients in the U.S. have received nearly a million injections of anti-VEGF medicines for the treatment of retinal disease, according to Parikh and colleagues. Nearly two-thirds of the injections have been for wet age-related macular degeneration.

A new film, Open Your Eyes, which focuses on the important role of optometrists in health care and how ophthalmic testing can help detect systemic diseases, will premiere April 29 as a one-night-only virtual event.

As the days drag on for many of us sheltering at home, there is plenty of time for us to consider our personal role in this pandemic as well as that of our profession.

ATLANTA — Harry A. Quigley, MD, led a special session on glaucoma at this year’s SECO meeting that ranged from “what do we really know about glaucoma” to how glaucoma is treated with surgery and lasers.

by Katie Greiner, OD, MS, MBA, FAAO