A 35-year-old Hispanic male presented with acute onset painless “cloudy vision” OD for four days. The patient recalled a similar event of transient monocular vision loss OD four months prior that was self-limiting within three hours that he never sought medical care for.
A 63-year-old male presented to the emergency room (ER) for onset of pain experienced two days prior, starting with left ear pain that radiated over to the left temporal side of his face, including his jaw. He reported “the muscles in his eye hurt” and had pain on eye movement. He also reported his eyeball was “irritated” and had tearing.
When you’ve been in practice for many years and the number and variety of glaucoma scenarios you’ve encountered is rather large, you learn to manage these patients the best you can with the information that is available to you. For example, some patients physically are unable to perform visual field testing and OCT imaging; some cannot be examined with a slit lamp. Still others have media opacification that prohibits adequate visualization of the posterior pole. So, how do you handle them? This recent scenario is a perfect example of maximizing use of our technology to gather as much information as is possible.
A 30-year-old patient presented to the contact lens (CL) clinic with a history of Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS). His chief complaints included chronic pain, blurry vision and dryness of the left eye.
Tivdak and Elahere are important advances for disease control in aggressive, often difficult-to-treat gynecological cancers.
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