Archive for July 2023

Restasis eye drops offer a solution for tear film dysfunction, which can have many symptoms including blurred vision and pain. Restasis contains cyclosporine, an anti-inflammatory medication used in organ transplant rejection. Unlike artificial tears, Restasis works at the source of the problem by targeting the inflammation that disrupts tear production. By reducing inflammation, the eye’s…

The very front part of the eye, the cornea, has a rounded dome-like shape. The curvature of the dome, i.e. how steep the cornea is, varies among the population. Girish Valluru and colleagues published an article in the June 2023 edition of the Journal Cornea that tried to correlate different measures of the overall human…

In the May 2023 edition of the journal Cornea, Mona Amer and colleagues published a case report about using 5-fluorouracil as a treatment for Lisch Dystrophy. Lisch Dystrophy is a problem with the cornea in which the outer portion of the cornea can become opacified with a whorl like pattern. In the past, most attempts…

The Amsler Grid is a tool used by patients to possibly detect changes in the retina. It is literally a grid; obviously, a grid has lots of straight lines. Therefore, looking at a grid on a regular basis can reveal vision distortions. If the straight lines aren’t as straight as they are supposed to be,…

In the June 2023 edition of JAMA Ophthalmology, Andrew Mihalache and colleagues published a study in which they assessed the success of ChatGPT in answering ophthalmology questions. The authors used text-based questions from the company OphthoQuestions and found that ChatGPT answered 46% of the questions correctly. The authors concluded that “ChatGPT … did not answer…