Vision

WASHINTON — Communicating with patients about their symptoms and diagnoses can be considered the psychology of vision loss, or “eyechiatry,” Mohammad Rafieetary, OD, FAAO, said in this Healio video from Optometry’s Meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ARVO meeting, David Eveleth, PhD, CEO of Trefoil Therapeutics, speaks about the results of TTHX1114 following Descemet stripping only and cataract surgery.

SAN DIEGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Eva I. Liang, MD, FACS, ABO, discusses a survey that assessed patient-reported vision outcomes before and after hydrophobic toric IOL implantation.

SAN DIEGO — Topography-guided ablation can improve visual outcomes and visual quality in patients who previously underwent laser vision correction, according to a speaker here.

SAN DIEGO — At Eyecelerator@ASCRS here, Peter Menziuso, Johnson & Johnson Vision company group chairman, announced the company will unveil the Elita femtosecond laser at the ASCRS meeting.

Personalized vision, or mixing and matching of IOLs to achieve optimal results, is a long-established practice.

An accelerated “papilledema protocol” in the emergency department, including prompt neuro-ophthalmology and neurology consults, blood pressure monitoring, MRI, MRV and lumbar puncture, could save patients’ vision and lives.

Orthokeratology is a viable myopia correcting technique and yielded high satisfaction in adults with low to moderate myopia in China, researchers reported.

The IOP-lowering efficacy of microinvasive glaucoma surgeries has been demonstrated in a number of studies in the ophthalmic literature.

Photobiomodulation delivered with the Valeda light delivery system demonstrated sustained vision improvements at 24 months in patients with dry age-related macular degeneration, according to a press release from LumiThera.