Bilateral Cataract

SAN FRANCISCO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Taylor Strange, DO, highlights the benefits of using Lensar’s Ally adaptive cataract treatment system.

A small percentage of surgeons are performing same-day bilateral sequential cataract surgery in the U.S., but there is still a lot of concern in our local community about infection risk.

Myopia management and coverage from the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus meeting led recent pediatric coverage on Healio/OSN.

In children with bilateral cataracts, systemic and hereditary causes were more often identified than in unilateral cases, in which ocular associations were more often made, according to a study.

In the new normal of COVID-19, the debate about immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery has come back in the limelight.

Immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery can offer similar vision and safety outcomes when compared with delayed sequential bilateral cataract surgery and is a more cost-effective option for patients and the health care system, according to a speaker at the virtual American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.