Browse articles from EyeWorld.org related to JCRS. EyeWorld is the award-winning member publication of ASCRS. The magazine provides news and updates from the Society as well as clinical features in the areas of cataract, refractive, cornea, glaucoma, and practice management. It publishes quarterly with editorial direction from its medical editorial board and staff.
OCT is a quick and non-invasive imaging modality with a high sensitivity in diagnosing macular conditions. The ASCRS/EyeWorld Journal Club reviewed a paper by Leung et al. that analyzed a cases series to evaluate the utility of macular OCT in cataract surgery preop assessments.
The ASCRS/EyeWorld Journal Club reviewed this large, retrospective, non-comparative case series by Leccisotti and Fields that evaluated the incidence, clinical course, and prognosis of DLK in patients undergoing low-energy femtosecond LASIK in combination with sterile techniques to limit interface contamination.
Recaps of a few recent papers from the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Ophthalmologists take several measures to prevent endophthalmitis after cataract surgery, but one thing they can’t control could have an impact on endophthalmitis rates: the weather. According to a study published in the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, endophthalmitis rates peaked in the more hot and humid months.
