Archive for May 2019

Recently, I read on an ophthalmology forum that there are some cannulas used during cataract surgery that are poorly manufactured. There is a specific type of cannula that we use during cataract surgery to “loosen” the cataract from the capsule it is contained in. That step in surgery is called hydrodissection, because the bulk of…

Recently, an ophthalmologist posted on a forum about a patient who had LASIK and then developed a scary looking post operative appearance. It looked as though the patient might have a serious infection in the eye. However, we who responded on the forum reassured the patient that it looked more like a flare up of…

Recently I was perusing a forum in which ophthalmologists can write to one another. On that forum, there was a heated debate about a particular type of lens implant. Some thought that the lens implant was a very good and acceptable lens implant to use; others thought that the lens implant was a terrible one…

I was recently reading a discussion board posting about laser peripheral iridotomy (PI) and cataract surgery as solutions for patients who have narrow angles. The angle of the eye is basically the space between the cornea (the very front of the eye) and the iris (the colored part of the eye). The angle is where…

One of the things that I had always been admonished about in residency was not using silicone containing lens implants in patients that might need retina surgery. When a cataract is removed, we usually replace the natural lens (which we call a cataract when it needs to be removed) with an artificial lens implant. Some…