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…

“You’ll poke your eye out!” One of the most dreaded things that ophthalmologists see are injuries that create full thickness holes in the wall of the eyeball. We usually call these “open globe” injuries. Isaac Bleicher and colleagues published a study in the April 2023 issue of the journal Ophthalmology that re-affirmed and deepened knowledge…

In the May 2023 edition of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Anouar Elotmani and colleagues published an article about calculating IOL power in patients who have had SMILE. Wait a minute, what is SMILE? SMILE is a technique of altering the cornea to change glasses prescription. Unlike the better known LASIK, there is…

Agni Malmin and colleagues published a study in the May 2023 edition of the journal Ophthalmology that was quite eye opening (if you’ll pardon the pun). They found that patients who had multiple injections in the eyeball had a REDUCED amount of the sorts of pathology associated with dry eye: they had less oil gland…

In the March 2023 edition of the Journal JAMA Ophthalmology, S.W. Kim and colleagues published a report of cases of fungal endophthalmitis after cataract surgery in South Korea. Endophthalmitis is an infection inside of the eyeball, and, as the title suggests, the causes of the infections were fungi in these cases. Infections associated with cataract…

In the April 2023 edition of the journal Cornea, Ranit Karmakar and colleagues published a study regarding alcohol and endothelial cells. Endothelial cells are the cells on the inside of the cornea, which is the very front part of the eye (like a “windshield” over inner parts of the eye). These cells are responsible for…

In the March 2023 issue of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Dr. Mike Zein and colleagues published a study about the effects of masks. They were measuring astigmatism on patients, and they conducted the measurements with and without face masks on. The masks used were Halyard Level 2, Halyard Level 3, and KN95.…

In the March 2023 edition of the journal Ophthalmology, Yohei Hashimoto and colleagues published a study about Covid-19 vaccination. They did a couple of different analyses, including a self-controlled case series analysis. In the self-controlled case series analysis, they found that there was no increased risk of ocular adverse events after vaccination. They did another…