Archive for October 2023

In the August 2023 edition of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Dr. Tomas Bro and colleagues published a review about cataract surgeries in Sweden from 1992 to 2021. One of the measures they tracked was posterior capsule rupture rate. When a cataract surgery is done, the typical procedure involves placing a replacement lens…

In the July 2023 edition of JAMA Ophthalmology, William Paul and colleagues published a study that showed that an AI system could do an okay job of estimating vision from pictures of the eye. This was only done in the setting of diabetes, and the vision that it was estimating was best vision with the…

On our exams of the eye, we often see a findings that looks like small dots on the back part of the cornea. The cornea is the very front portion of the eyeball. These findings are called guttae, and they are indicative of decreased function of the back part of the cornea. The back part…

In the July 2023 edition of the Journal Cornea, Dr. Daniela Knauf and colleagues published a study about measuring intraocular pressure in keratoconus. Keratoconus is a commonly encountered disease in a cornea practice. In this disease, the cornea stretches out into a cone shape, and the thickness of the central cornea decreases. This thinning out…