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Call for Submissions | 2017

Have an interesting case or baffling patient experience you'd like to share with other members? Send us your best clinical scenarios for publication on the ONE Network. Submit to casestudy@aao.org.

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Down on the Farm

Jun 22, 2017 by Ye Elaine Wang, MD; Laura A. Vickers, MD; Hugo Y. Hsu, MD; and Olivia L. Lee, MD

A 63-year-old female farmer with no significant past medical or ocular history and no history of contact lens wear was struck in her right eye with hay while working in the field. She immediately went to see her optometrist, who promptly removed a foreign body from her right cornea.

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Diagnose This: MRI versus CT scanning of orbit

Jun 19, 2017

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Diagnose This: Positive relative afferent pupillary defect

Jun 12, 2017

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Diagnose This: Intraoperative mitomycin C during trabeculectomy

Jun 05, 2017

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Diagnose This: Fibromyalgia and chronic dry mouth and eyes

May 29, 2017

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Diagnose This: 67-year-old man with progressive visual loss

May 22, 2017

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Diagnose This: Preferred postoperative target refraction

May 15, 2017

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Rude Awakening

May 12, 2017 by Nathaniel Simmons, MD, MS; Darby D. Miller, MD, MPH

A 32-year-old woman wakes with sharp pain in her right eye. Initially she felt as if she had a piece of glass in her eye. Now her eye feels sandy and dry but is slowly improving. She reports no history other than a remote corneal abrasion from a tree branch several years ago.

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Diagnose This: 56-year-old diabetic with pain and decreased vision

May 08, 2017

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Diagnose This: Oral prednisone

May 01, 2017

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Diagnose This: Headache associated with scintillations

Apr 24, 2017

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Endothelial Keratoplasty: DSEK and DMEK

Apr 19, 2017 by Francis W. Price Jr, MD; Kashif Baig, MD, MBA; Marianne O. Price, Phd, MBA

This course provides a brief overview of DSEK and DMEK, an elegant technique for selective replacement of dysfunctional corneal endothelium that continues to evolve and revolutionize corneal transplantation.

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