Cataract Surgery

VIENNA — Iris fixation and scleral fixation, two techniques that are used in the absence of capsular support, have advantages and disadvantages.

VIENNA — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS meeting, Nic Reus, MD, presents the results of a real-world evidence study assessing the outcomes of the Vivity extended depth of focus IOL from Alcon.

After selling her ophthalmology practice, Cynthia Matossian, MD, FACS, packed her bags for her first-ever mission trip to St. Vincent in the Grenadines, joining dozens of others on a surgery mission entering its third decade of service.

SURF-201, a novel preservative-free topical formulation of betamethasone sodium phosphate, showed efficacy in preventing inflammation and pain in a post-cataract population.

When surgeons consider adding office-based surgery to their practice, they tend to have questions about five main issues.

Over the next year or so, we will hear more discussion about a new breed of accommodating lens implants seeking FDA approval and how they might alter our practices.

OCS-01 eye drops demonstrated positive topline results for the treatment of inflammation and pain after cataract surgery, according to a press release from Oculis.

Before I was in medical school, I spent time volunteering in a hospital emergency room.

Blue-light filtering IOLs exhibited an advantage in favorable glaucoma outcomes after cataract surgery over non-blue-light filtering lenses, according to a study published in the Journal of Glaucoma.

Healio’s top cataract surgery items in July covered the benefits of cryopreserved amniotic membrane before surgery and a column discussing how an ophthalmologist dealt with the same surgical complication twice in one day.