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Today, I saw a patient on call. It was actually a great experience! Typically, we consider it to be a bit of an intrusion on our personal time to have to come into the hospital and see a patient. However, most of the time, it actually turns out to be wonderful–when patients know that we…

When we talk about transplants in the eye world, this usually means a transplant of the very front part of the eye, which is the cornea. Some patients think that the entire eye can be replaced, but that is not true. Transplanted corneas are like any other transplanted organ of the body; they are subject…

Have you ever heard of eye patching? Have you ever wondered what the heck it is all about? A very common type of patching is that which is used in children. There are a lot of nuances that can be present, but the general gist of treatment is to put the patch over the GOOD…

I may have written about this before, but the topic tends to be a sustained cause of confusion. An eye can become inflamed if certain types of cells are redirected toward it from the rest of the body. These cells are often called inflammatory cells, which seems tautological in this context, but their presence really…

For any cornea transplant, there has to be an individual who is the donor. In the April 2025 edition of the journal Cornea, Abhishek Ramini and colleagues published a study related to donors diagnosed with sleep apnea. They found that donors who had sleep apnea provided corneas that had a lower cell count than those…

There are serious eye infections and not-so-serious eye infections. An example of a not-so-serious eye infection would be a common viral conjunctivitis–pink eye. In viral conjunctivitis, it is quite unlikely that there will be permanent consequences and quite likely that the infection will resolve on its own. An example of a common serious eye infection…

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…