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Visual Potential Decades After Trauma
CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year-old man presents for a routine examination. He states that his right eye has been blind since he suffered a blunt trauma at the age of 6.…
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Phacotechnology and Incision Size
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Cataract and a Tube Shunt
CASE PRESENTATION A 65-year-old woman presents with decreased vision due to cataracts. She relates a past ocular history of glaucoma surgery several years ago on her left eye. She also…
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Cataract Surgery in the Keratoconic Patient
How do you treat cataracts in patients with keratoconus? What is the role of toric IOLs in these cases, and when are they contraindicated? How do you treat the patient…
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2011: an Eyeball Space Odyssey
The “Inside Eyetube.net” column is soaring into a new decade with lots of interesting tips and tricks for choosing an IOL, improving your phaco technique, entering the cross-linking world, and…
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Posterior Polar Cataract and Astigmatism
CASE PRESENTATION A 49-year-old, soon-to-be-retired police officer is referred to you for a cataract evaluation. He complains of severe glare when driving at night. The patient states that he has…
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Traumatic Aniridia and Aphakia
CASE PRESENTATION A 41-year-old man presents for the surgical correction of aphakia in his left eye. He has a history of trauma to this eye at age 5, followed by…
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Phaco experience maximized
Platform provides attractability, holdability, cutting ability, and followability, surgeon says New York—Phacoemulsification technology has advanced steadily in the past decade, and the major phaco platforms available in the United States…
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Phaco Technology: What’s Under the Hood — And Why It Matters
BY RENÉ LUTHE, SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ever since Charlie Kelmans fateful visit to a dentist inspired him to adapt an ultrasound teeth-cleaning device for cataract surgery, phacoemulsification has progressed steadily…
