Archive for July 2025

One retinal disease that all eye doctors know about is retinitis pigmentosa (RP). It is a very common inherited retinal disease, and, in some ways, may be thought of as the quintessential inherited retinal disease. Unfortunately, there is no good treatment for it. As an ophthalmologic community, we have heard a lot about use of…

One of the most dreaded moments during cataract surgery is the discovery of zonular instability. The zonules hold the capsule in place. The capsule contains the cataract. Since the goal of cataract surgery is usually to take the cataract out of the capsule and the place an artificial lens implant into the capsule, having a…

I often hear from cataract surgery patients that they don’t want to “ruin their surgery” and have to “do it again.” Well, it turns out that you can’t have cataract surgery again, and any further surgery is usually much more involved and risky. For example, in the February edition of the Journal of Cataract &…

In the February 2025 edition of the Journal Ophthalmology, Dr. Yael Lustig-Barzelay and colleagues published a study about xanthelasma and dyslipidemia. Xanthelasmas of the eyelids are fairly common; they are yellow plaques that frequently form on the nasal side of the eyelids. They are fatty deposits, so there have been studies that have tried to…