Patient Selection

KOLOA, Hawaii — Assessing fellow eye status, age and history of uveitis are helpful ways to determine which patients are most likely to benefit from treatment with FDA-approved drugs for geographic atrophy, according to a speaker.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Jorge L. Alió, MD, PhD, speaks about the physical principles of extended depth of focus lenses.

This topic may be a bit far-reaching for premium surgeons, but it seems my recent daily cataract surgical evaluations have at least one patient simulating Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

Healio spoke with Gwen Nichols, MD, about treatment options currently available in CML.

NEW ORLEANS — PCI may not improve survival or left ventricular recovery among patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy compared with optimal medical therapy alone, regardless of baseline myocardial viability, a speaker reported.

In this video, Tanya Dorff, MD, head of the genitourinary cancers program at City of Hope, discusses results from studies covering lutetium-PSMA-617, two of which were major features in the prostate cancer section at ASCO Annual Meeting.

Trifocal IOLs may be an option for patients with less-than-perfect eyes, but selection should be made case by case, according to one specialist.

The premium surgeon is quite familiar with the phrase “overdeliver/underpromise” in their everyday exam lane refractive cataract evaluation.

When selecting and counseling patients for advanced IOL cataract surgery, Richard Tipperman, MD, weighs patient temperament and expected results, and works to manage patient expectations throughout the process.

It takes careful patient selection, a sound surgical technique and stable components to achieve reliable uncemented fixation of total knee arthroplasty, a presenter at the Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Winter Meeting said.