Comanagement News

When patients are fit in multifocal contact lenses, they are typically educated that gaining near vision means giving up some of their quality of vision, as incoming light gets split between distance and near. Similarly, early multifocal IOLs also split light, which resulted in trade-offs in visual quality.

Healio/Primary Care Optometry News bloggers address primary care and health reform, surgery and comanagement, clinical and diagnostic conundrums, and the implementation of social media in the optometric practice.

The trifocal AcrySof IQ PanOptix and the extended-range-of vision Tecnis Symfony, from Alcon and Abbott, respectively, are both good options for patients, with a slight advantage of trifocality for near vision tasks. However, the perception of visual side effects with both lenses should be considered when counseling patients, according to a study.

Small incision lenticule extraction, or SMILE, is a procedure where a femtosecond laser is used to create an intrastromal lenticule that is surgically extracted through a small femtosecond incision, correcting even high degrees of myopia with impressive precision.

Researchers examined the potential to noninvasively detect and quantify deposits in the retinas of patients with Alzheimer’s disease by using a solid lipid curcumin fluorochrome and a modified point scanning laser ophthalmoscope.

In spite of the debate, drama and widespread awareness of the health care agenda in America, there has been no progress in resolving the most fundamental problem. This problem is the lack of resources for primary care services.

MacuLogix has announced the launch of an optometric advisory board tasked with documenting the standard of care for treating age-related macular degeneration by developing a consensus paper.

Human retinal pigment epithelial cells support replication of Ebola virus and release the virus in high titer, according to researchers who studied live Ebola virus and the ARPE-19 human ocular pigment epithelial cell line.

A prospective study comparing the results of femtosecond-assisted topography-guided LASIK and SMILE in eyes with myopia or myopic astigmatism showed superior results of LASIK. According to the authors, this is likely due to the more sophisticated technology currently available for LASIK.

WASHINGTON – A multitude of management options exist for central serous retinopathy, and “if the patient doesn’t become better in 3 to 4 months, consider another option,” Roya Attar, OD, MBA, said here at Optometry’s Meeting.