Over several decades, glaucoma surgical options for adult patients have progressed from various forms of full-thickness filtering surgery to the later additions of trabeculectomy, trabeculectomy with antifibrosing agents, glaucoma implants,…
Having recently become the tenth Editor in Chief for the American Journal of Ophthalmology since the first printing in 1884, I more completely understand the importance of meeting the future…
Purpose To evaluate the incidence of remission among patients with intermediate uveitis; to identify factors potentially predictive of remission. Design Retrospective cohort study. Methods Involved eyes of patients with primary…
Purpose To compare visual acuity, accommodation, and contrast sensitivity of the AkkoLens Lumina accommodative intraocular lens (AkkoLens Clinical b.v., Breda, The Netherlands) with a standard monofocal intraocular lens (IOL). Design…
Well-meaning but controversial, even Kafkaesque, was the surgical technique introduced by the American neurologist Walter Freeman to treat severe mental illness in the 1940s and 1950s. The Portuguese neurologist Egas…
The AJO encourages authors to report the visual acuity in the manuscript using the same nomenclature that was used in gathering the data provided they were recorded in one of…
Dr Folberg provided me with one of my most rewarding professional collaborations when we joined forces in the late 1980s to write a pair of papers on benign conjunctival melanocytic…
We read with interest the article on Terrien marginal degeneration by Chan and associates. The authors mentioned that 7 out of 25 patients (28%) had unilateral disease. However, they did…
Purpose To evaluate the short-term functional and anatomic outcomes of patients with persistent diabetic macular edema (DME) who were converted from bevacizumab and/or ranibizumab to aflibercept. Design Retrospective, interventional, noncomparative,…
