Visual Dysfunction

Patients who underwent a single treatment with TearCare experienced significant improvements in reading speed, as well as signs and symptoms of dry eye disease, 1 month after the procedure, according to a study in Clinical Ophthalmology.

Carl D. Regillo, MD, spoke with Healio about unmet needs in the field of geographic atrophy.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2022, Andrew G. Lee, MD, discusses the monocular temporal crescent and how it can be identified.

A recent study in patients with Parkinson’s disease highlighted the link between visual dysfunction and cognitive decline, as well as greater white matter degeneration. The FDA also approved Gocovri extended-release tablets for patients with PD. Read these and more recent stories below.

Patients with Parkinson’s disease and visual dysfunction had a higher risk for cognitive impairment and greater white matter degeneration compared with those without visual dysfunction, according to results published in Movement Disorders.

Visual snow syndrome is a fascinating phenomenon of unknown neurological etiology. Although many clinicians have never even heard of it or consider it rare, my experience suggests it is more common than previously thought.

by Hannu Laukkanen, OD, MEd, FAAO, FCOVD-A

by Curtis R. Baxstrom, OD, FCOVD, FAAO, FNORA