April 15, 2021

Features

Clinical Care

A Glaucoma Starter Kit: The Patient in Your Chair

Applying personalized medicine to this chronic disease is critical to ensure the best outcomes.

Five Questions on Dry AMD Monitoring and Management

Address these concerns and observing these patients will be more effective.

Comanagement

The Many Layers of Cornea Comanagement

The urgency of clinical scenarios in this area often has optometrists setting expectations—and the relationship dynamic, too.

Cornea

A New Consensus on Keratoconus

Collagen crosslinking has prompted a more interventional approach to this condition.

Corneoscleral Concerns: Trouble at the Border

The limbal junction is key in protecting and preserving the ocular surface. Here are a few conditions that can disrupt its equilibrium.

Keeping up with Keratitis

Corneal infections move fast—and you should, too. Here’s advice on how to mobilize a defense of the eye that yields swift results.

Skip the Scalpel? A Medical Approach to Endo Recovery

In time, rho kinase inhibitors could become a revolutionary way to treat corneal endothelial disease.

The Many Layers of Cornea Comanagement

The urgency of clinical scenarios in this area often has optometrists setting expectations—and the relationship dynamic, too.

Myopia

Myopia: Translating Science Into Practice

With the prevalence of this condition skyrocketing, it’s more important now than ever to understand its mechanism and management.

Retina

A Glaucoma Starter Kit: The Patient in Your Chair

Applying personalized medicine to this chronic disease is critical to ensure the best outcomes.

Five Questions on Dry AMD Monitoring and Management

Address these concerns and observing these patients will be more effective.

Departments

Chairside

Let’s Take a Gander at Gaps

We all have them in our schedules—worse now than ever. Don’t deny it.

Clinical Quandaries

Pass the Salt

Guide patients through the initial healing window of RCE and future episodes may be minimized.

Coding Connection

Biological Alternative

Amniotic membranes could be the best corneal treatment option in a number of cases.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Operation Risk Reduction

It’s up to us to help mitigate the factors that can contribute to corneal infection.

Diagnostic Quiz

Elevator Going Up

Does this atypical retinal presentation suggest a sight-threatening pathology, or something benign?

Focus on Refraction

Make Way For Yoked Prism

This option has improved the lives of many patients; two are highlighted here.

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

Spot the Subtleties

Pay close attention to your results, as smaller changes could mean the difference between glaucoma progression and simple testing variability.

Letters to the Editor

Feedback and ideas from the optometric community.

Ocular Surface Review

End of the Line for EBMD

More than just an annoyance, this condition can alter refractive status in ways that complicate outcomes for surgical patients

Outlook

A Case of Nerves

ODs may hesitate to embrace neuro-ophthalmic cases, but you can be an essential player in care without shouldering it all.

Surgical Minute

Build Back Better

When the corneal epithelium is compromised, sometimes the best approach is to let the eye start over with a clean slate.

Therapeutic Review

Scratching the Surface

Doing a thorough job with corneal abrasions helps greatly.

Through My Eyes

New Options, Front to Back

Take a look at promising treatments for the cornea and retina, ready now or on the horizon.