Primary Care Optometry News Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Primary Care Optometry News.
Table of Contents
- An effective comanagement team improves patient outcomes Sandy T. Feldman, MD
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- Bowman’s layer transplantation improves visual outcomes in patients with keratoconus
- CATT follow-up: Visual acuity in 50% of patients still 20/40 or better at 5 years
- Light therapy effective long-term for dry eye
- NASEM report: Eye, vision health not recognized as population health priority
- ODs get assistance with prior authorizations for prescriptions
- ODs to play important role in wearables
- Testosterone cream may provide relief from MGD-related dry eye
- Research community seeks consistency in myopia control trials Michael D. DePaolis, OD, FAAO
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- Brinzolamide-brimonidine lowers IOP in POAG
- Standard structural measures can identify progression in advanced glaucoma
- Study shows smartphone ophthalmoscopy agrees with slit lamp biomicroscopy
- Adherence to Mediterranean diet can reduce risk of AMD
- Alcon launches CyPass micro-stent at AAO meeting
- Biomarker testing needed in conjunctival melanoma management
- Brimonidine seen as promising treatment for geographic atrophy
- Confocal imaging enhances contrast visualization in geographic atrophy
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- Dysfunctional lens syndrome education for patients recommended
- IRIS becomes 'world's largest clinical registry'
- Natamycin remains treatment of choice for fungal ulcers
- Patient misconceptions of LASIK remain
- Portable artificial vision device may improve daily life for patients with low vision
- SMILE’s advantages include improved tear osmolarity
- Speaker gives pearls for preventing infectious keratitis after laser vision correction
- Topical NSAID prevents pseudophakic CME in eyes with certain risk factors
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- Valeant CEO: More efficient, available health care needed
- Visual gains achieved with abicipar for diabetic macular edema
- Experts debate, reach consensus on parameters for myopia control trials
- Patient presents with swollen, tender eyelid John Neal, OD