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Higher order aberrations may be corrected with special lenses
May 07, 2010
Categories: Higher order Aberrations
Higher order aberrations (HOAs) are a result of the eye's imperfect optical system. HOAs may result in glare, halos, blur, and hazy vision. HOAs tend to become worse as the pupils enlarge, which occurs more commenly in the dark at night. The corrective options include wave-front-guided refractive laser vision correction. However, recently, there are commercially available technology that appear promising to deal with HOAs.
Untreated vision may contribute to dementia
May 03, 2010
Categories: Dementia Alzheimers
New research suggests that poor vision and untreated vision may be a contributing factor in dementia.
Researchers at the University of Michigan used data from the Health and Retirement Study and Medicare files to follow the experiences of 625 elderly participants over a period of eight-and-a-half-year years with normal cognition at baseline.
Endophthalmitis
April 29, 2010
Categories: Endophthalmitis
Prophylactic antibitoic in anterior chamber in cataract surgery:
A prospective study of 13,652 patients who underwent cataract surgery between 1999 and 2008 showed that prophylactic intracameral cefuroxime markedly reduced acute-onset endophthalmitis after cataract surgery . The study comprised of two groups, one group comprised of 6,595 patients did not receive cefuroxime. A second group of 7,057 patients received cefuroxime.
Aspirin prophylaxis has no effect on age-related macular degeneration. Ophthalmology. 116(12):2386-2392.
March 19, 2010
Categories: Age-related macular degeneration, Aspirin
Prophylactic aspirin therapy appears to have no effect on development of new-onset age-related macular degeneration.
Women's Health Study, a randomized, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial among 39,876 women, showed that here was no difference in incident age-related macular degeneration in patients taking aspirin or placebo.
Sayed Jovkar, M.D.
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