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VIDEO: Corneal comorbidities considered in choice of IOL
9 days ago | By Healio
KOLOA, Hawaii - In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2023, Elizabeth Yeu, MD, discusses considerations for choosing the appropriate lens implant for cataract patients with corneal comorbidities.
“Diagnostics are going to be really important in these considerations,” Yeu said, adding that she further considers severity of the disease itself and whether there are innovations that are associated with that comorbidity.
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VIDEO: Presbyopia lenses provide greater vision range, risk of night vision loss
9 days ago | By Healio
KOLOA, Hawaii - In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2023, William B. Trattler, MD, explains considerations for choosing a presbyopia-correcting IOL and which patients may not be best suited for them.
“We have wonderful presbyopic lens technologies that give a wonderful range of vision but there is increased risk for night vision complaints with those lenses, so I let patients make the decision of what's more important to them, and then we go in the right direction for that particular patient,” Trattler said.
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VIDEO: New topical gel features advantages over typical anesthetics
9 days ago | By Healio
KOLOA, Hawaii - In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2023, Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, previews the advantages of a new topical anesthetic.
“It's actually our first new topical anesthetic in over a decade, and it has some advantages,” he said. “It has a rapid onset of action and a longer duration of action than the typical tetracaine or proparacaine that we use today.”
Iheezo (chloroprocaine hydrochloride ophthalmic gel, Harrow) was FDA approved for ocular surface anesthesia in September 2022.
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VIDEO: First determine source of residual refractive error, then go from there
10 days ago | By Healio
KOLOA, Hawaii - In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2023, Marjan Farid, MD, discusses residual refractive error after cataract surgery.
If the residual refractive error is large and the cornea is normal, “In that case, something happened. You have to go in and change that lens and treat that quickly,” Farid said.
There are many tools available to the surgeon to address residual refractive error, according to Farid. The key, she said, is to systematically determine the source of the error and go from there.
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