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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Richard Lindstrom |Christine Klimanskis
Vitreous opacities have many names including vitreous floaters and mouches volantes. Their impact on vision has been called myodesopsia, which is to me a positive dysphotopsia caused by blockage and scattering of light as it passes through the eye to the retina. We are all familiar with the negative impact that opacities in the ocular media at any level can have on visual function.
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Richard Lindstrom |Christine Klimanskis
The cover story in this issue of Healio | OSN provides a comprehensive review of obstructive sleep apnea and its potential impact on the body and eye. I will emphasize a few of the extensive points discussed. The first is that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is common and underdiagnosed in both children and adults. It is also associated with many systemic and ocular comorbidities.
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2 months ago | 
healio.com | Richard Lindstrom |Christine Klimanskis
Presbyopia is the second most common refractive error in the United States, with about 128 million of 335 million Americans, or 38% of the population, being presbyopic. Myopia today is slightly higher at 42% of the population. Globally, it is estimated that 2 billion of the world’s 8 billion inhabitants are presbyopic.
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2 months ago | 
healio.com | Richard Lindstrom |Christine Klimanskis
In this issue of Healio | OSN, a roundtable discusses the management of epithelial ingrowth after LASIK, neurotrophic keratitis and Demodex blepharitis with marginal keratitis. A few thoughts after decades of treating these often challenging patients. Epithelial ingrowth is rare after primary LASIK with an incidence of less than 1%, looking at multiple published series.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
healio.com | Richard Lindstrom |Christine Klimanskis
You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Retinopathy of prematurity occurs primarily in low birth weight premature infants who are admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit and require oxygen supplementation.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
healio.com | Richard Lindstrom
You've successfully added Cornea/External Disease in Ophthalmology to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Neurotrophic keratitis is well explored in the cover story of this issue of Healio | OSN.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
healio.com | Richard Lindstrom
You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. The first commercial phacoemulsification procedure with Charles Kelman, MD, as the inventor and surgeon occurred in 1967 in the United States.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
healio.com | Richard Lindstrom |Christine Klimanskis
You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. According to several sources, infectious keratitis is the fifth leading cause of blindness in the world.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
healio.com | Richard Lindstrom |Christine Klimanskis
You've successfully added Cataract Surgery in Ophthalmology to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Inflammation is associated with every surgical procedure. In most surgical specialties, postoperative inflammation is considered an expected part of the healing process.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
healio.com | Anthony DeFino |Christine Klimanskis |Richard Lindstrom |Nicole R. Fram
You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Healio| OSN is proud to announce new board positions for Nicole R. Fram, MD, Kendall E. Donaldson, MD, MS, and Audrey R. Talley Rostov, MD.
