Archive for November 2024

In the July 2024 edition of JAMA Ophthalmology, Dr. Liubov Robman and colleagues published a study about aspirin. The subject of the investigation was whether aspirin could stop the start of macular degeneration or the progression of existing macular degeneration. There are some nuances to the data, but the overall conclusion is that aspirin does…

I recently saw on an ophthalmology forum that a 25-year-old boxer had a cataract. Cataracts can easily form at younger ages in cases of trauma to the eye. In a boxer in the third decade of life, it’s a virtual certainty the cataract was formed from blows to the eye. Apparently, he is curious when…

When we do cataract surgery, the complication rate is quite low. In fact, it is less than one percent. That basically means that it never happens, right? Well, the risk for any individual patient is definitely low, but one percent theoretically affects 1 patient out of 100. We do several hundred surgeries per year, so…

When a patient comes in with a ruptured eyeball, my plan usually centers around stitching the hole closed and not much else. In the June 2024 edition of the journal Cornea, Dr. Lindsay Foley and colleagues published a study showing that different doctors have different opinions on how to approach the surgery. It is interesting…