July 2007

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Features

13th Annual Glaucoma Report

The Open and Closed Case for Gonioscopy

This procedure is essential for a correct diagnosis. And, it’s not as tricky as you might think.

Contact Lenses

Presbyopic Contact Lenses: From Selection to Success

Here's how to fit even your patients with advanced presbyopia.

Life + Career

O.D.s with Multiple Degrees

Whether for more diverse experience or a career change, these O.D.s all went back to school and learned something new.

Low Vision

Open Your Practice to Low Vision Patients

You can incorporate aspects of low vision rehabilitation into your practice without specializing.

Minority Report

How O.D.s Are Meeting the Needs of Underserved Populations

From L.A. to Boston and everywhere in between, eye-care practitioners need to serve their underserved patients.

Special Report

Contact Lens Pioneers

The Early History of Contact Lenses

Departments

Chairside

Call Me Professor Vickers

Just call me soon. As new optometry schools keep popping up, one of them is sure to hire me to educate their students. Or clean up the labs.

'Eye' Write the Songs

Eat your heart out, Barry Manilow. Take a powder, Paul McCartney. You’re nothing until you write a great optometry song.

Clinical Quandaries

How to Spot a Bad Bleb

What does a healthy bleb look like? Here are some warning signs for problem blebs, and when it’s better to use a valve.

Defect Won't Heal? Try AMT

Amniotic membrane transplant is a helpful option when a persistent epithelial defect doesn’t respond to more conservative methods.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

NK After HZO? Oh, No!

When a patient presents with neurotrophic keratitis secondary to herpes zoster, make sure the eye has adequate lid coverage and lubrication.

Take Eye Trouble to Heart

When a patient presents with vortex keratopathy secondary to use of amiodarone, comanage the case with the patient’s cardiologist.

Diagnostic Quiz

Buckling Under the Pressure

Is This an Antibiotic Reaction?

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

From Dry Eye to Closed Angles

This patient complained of dry eye symptoms. Ultimately, she underwent a laser procedure. How did this happen?

Letters to the Editor

Meetings and Conferences

Meetings + Conferences

News Review

Glaucoma Goes Untreated in One-Third of Older Patients

AK Outbreak: Lens Solution Is But One Factor

In the News

A New O.D. School Coming to Arizona?

Some O.D.s say no new school is needed. A school official defends the proposal.

Migraine Sufferers May Have Greater Risk of Retinopathy

Eating Away the Risk of AMD

Pay for Performance Program Starts July 1

Two Suitors Eye B&L

B&L’s future depends on who acquires it, but the buyers’ futures vary, too.

Outlook

Great Minds

This month we celebrate the great thought leaders whose genius, determination and hard work made optometry what it is today.

Life and Career at a Crossroads

Are you working to finance your ‘real’ life? Or, is your work a part of what you enjoy in life?

Product Review

Retina Quiz

How Does It All Fit Together?

This patient with vision loss had extensive retinal hemorrhages combined with high IOP, iris bowing and angle closure.

Small BB, Big Problems

Following injury, this patient has reduced vision in the affected eye and other fundus changes.

Therapeutic Review

End the Recurring Nightmare

Recurrent corneal erosion presents a challenge, but most patients respond well to conservative ongoing therapy.

Options in Chalazia Management

When a patient presents with a chalazion, consider conservative therapy, intralesional steroid injection or surgical incision.

Options in Chalazia Management

When a patient presents with a chalazion, consider conservative therapy, intralesional steroid injection or surgical incision.