Purpose To compare the visual performance of patients with unilateral cataract following implantation of monofocal, accommodating, refractive, and diffractive multifocal intraocular lenses (IOL). Design Prospective nonrandomized clinical trial. Methods Eighty-seven…
Purpose To examine the public health implications of 2 recent outbreaks of atypical contact lens-related infectious keratitis. Design Perspective based on the literature and authors’ experience. Results The contact lens-related…
What causes age-related macular degeneration (AMD)? Numerous literature reviews have addressed this question by providing perfunctory tallies of numerous hypothesized risk factors. In so doing, such reviews often fail to…
As all aging ophthalmologists experience first hand, presbyopia is, at a minimum, a nuisance. Beyond the optical correction that is newly required for formerly effortless near-vision activities, presbyopia is a…
Progress in microbiology has always been driven by technological advances. van Leeuwenhoek, the great seventeenth-century pioneer of microscopy, was the first to observe bacteria and protozoa in the 1670s, but…
At one time, for the developed nations, the primary goal of cataract surgery was improved visual acuity, with or without the need for spectacles after surgery. That was then. Technology…
Purpose To determine the retinal features seen on enhanced spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) associated with foveal retinal detachment in eyes with myopic macular retinoschisis. Design Retrospective case series. Methods…
Stacy RC, Jakobiec FA, Schoenfield L, Singh AD. Unifocal and Multifocal Reactive Lymphoid Hyperplasia vs Follicular Lymphoma of the Ocular Adnexa. Am J Ophthalmol. 2010; 150(3):412–426. In September 2010 issue,…
Barton FB, Fong DS, Knatterud GL, and the ETDRS Research Group. Classification of Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue Test Results in the Early Treatment Retinopathy Study. Am J Ophthalmol 2004;138(1):119-124. In July 2004…
