October 15, 2019

Features

Case Report

The Larry Alexander Resident Case Report Contest: When and How To Treat Optic Disc Pit Maculopathy

This rare presentation has both medical and surgical treatment options. Be prepared with comprehensive knowledge of both.

Diagnostic Skills & Techniques

An OD's Guide to Visual Processing Disorders

When you suspect your patient’s sight is affected by a neurological issue, be sure to understand the differential diagnosis.

Thyroid Eye Disease In Your Exam Lane

Whether managing associated side effects or referring and comanaging, you are integral to these patients’ care teams.

When 20/20 Isn’t Enough

Patients may be correctable to excellent acuity, but underlying pathology could still distort, interrupt or disturb their vision.

Dry Eye

When Drugs Cause Dry Eye

To identify and treat patients more effectively, know these systemic drugs and ocular drops linked to dry eye.

Glaucoma

Can You Differentiate These Tough Glaucoma Cases?

Just because it looks like POAG doesn’t mean it is. Here’s how you can get to the bottom of even the most difficult diagnoses.

Departments

Chairside

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Sometimes it’s worth hauling your phoropter over to a new building, if only for a little exercise.

Clinical Quandaries

Eyes Wide Open

Eyelid surgery requires a conservative approach to avoid exposure keratitis.

Coding Connection

Sensory Motor Testing Defined

Know when you need more than a basic exam—and how to code for it.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Challenge Accepted

Neurotrophic keratopathy can be difficult to manage, but ever-expanding treatment options are enhancing our ability to achieve successful results.

Diagnostic Quiz

Put a Red Eye Back in the Pink

Does anything about this patient's presentation help explain why his red eye is getting worse?

Focus on Refraction

Putting Add Power to the Test

Learn more about the monocular estimation method and the fused cross-cylinder test to help manage your binocular vision patients.

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

Clean House, But Have a Plan

Hitting the reset button on meds takes a methodical approach.

Letters to the Editor

Read this optometrist's reaction to one of our recent columns.

Ocular Surface Review

Pressure on the Surface

Glaucoma patients using topical therapy often spiral into chronic dry eye. Here’s why.

Outlook

Bad Optics

The easiest way to help almost a billion people is simply to give them a pair of glasses. But that’s only the start.

Retina Dilemmas

Facedown Showdown

Everyone agrees timely macular hole intervention is crucial—but post-op positioning is up for debate.

Retina Quiz

Be Home Before Dark

Can imaging help find a course of action for a patient with lifelong myopia who is now experiencing progressive vision loss?

Surgical Minute

Out of the Blue

Using trypan blue vital dye in cataract surgery could be the difference between success and failure.

Through My Eyes

Beating 20/Blurry

Acuity is just the tip of the visual health iceberg. Don’t forget to test other aspects of a patient’s visual perception.