June 15, 2021

Features

Case Report

Diagnosis of Bilateral, Combined Hamartomas of the Retina and Retinal Pigment Epithelium in a Pediatric Patient

All individuals with these lesions require careful eye examinations and a detailed case history.

Multimodal Imaging of Choroidal Melanoma with Submacular Fluid

While rare, arm yourself with the techniques needed to detect this dangerous condition.

Comanagement

Be a Retina Referral Rock Star

ODs can—and should—take the lead on screening and monitoring routine cases, only sending to specialists the patients that truly need advanced care.

Ophthalmic Lenses

Understanding Today’s Progressives

Help patients choose and use these lenses with fewer hassles and greater success.

Retina

Be a Retina Referral Rock Star

ODs can—and should—take the lead on screening and monitoring routine cases, only sending to specialists the patients that truly need advanced care.

Get Serious About Central Serous Chorioretinopathy

Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists may present an effective option for early intervention.

Retina Care: The Next Wave

Fifteen years into the anti-VEGF era, protocols are evolving to improve outcomes, reduce treatment burden or both. Here’s what’s new and what’s coming soon.

Stroke of the Eye: Are You Prepared?

When retinal arterial occlusion strikes, you and the patient have only a few hours to act if you want the best odds of preserving vision.

What to Do When It’s Not AMD

Learn how to identify and diagnose the multitude of other macular dystrophies and degenerations.

Departments

Chairside

The New New

More and more people are getting vaccinated—you know what that means.

Clinical Quandaries

Burn, Baby, Burn

It is essential to determine the nature of a chemical injury when faced with this ocular emergency.

Coding Connection

Bring the Retina into View

The often forgotten is now in focus.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Through Thick and Thin

Drug improves endothelial function but also yields corneal edema.

Diagnostic Quiz

The Plot Thickens

When a patient’s clinical outlook changes radically, so too should your approach to differential diagnosis.

Focus on Refraction

Space: the Final Frontier

Where appropriate, work cheiroscopic tracing into your workup to get a better handle of the case in your chair.

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

Don’t Feed the Hand that Bites You

Manage your glaucoma patients to the best of your ability before initiating a referral that may ultimately do more harm than good.

Ocular Surface Review

Five Easy Pieces

Follow these steps to increase your dry eye diagnostic accuracy.

Outlook

Profit and Loss

Who wins and who loses as optometrists choose employment over entrepreneurship?

Retina Quiz

Dredging Up the Past

Evident scarring and a telltale history point to the diagnosis.

Surgical Minute

IOP Control: Time to Play Offense?

Interventional glaucoma allows optometrists to minimize the treatment burden for our patients.

Therapeutic Review

Not a BRITE Idea

Beware this severe complication from a rare cosmetic procedure.

Through My Eyes

Rescuing the Retina

Innovations are expanding optometry’s role in care as specialists find themselves overburdened and demand piles up.