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May 2016

Diabetic Macular Edema—Personalizing Treatment

Anti-VEGF therapy has been a godsend for many patients with diabetic macular edema. But it’s not the whole answer for all patients. Greater personalization is still needed.

Ophthalmic Pearls

Cytomegalovirus Anterior Uveitis in Immunocompetent Patients

By Maxwell Elia, MD, John J. Huang, MD, and Paul A. Gaudio, MD
Edited by Sharon Fekrat, MD, and Ingrid U. Scott, MD, MPH

How to diagnose and treat this rare type of cytomegalovirus-associated uveitis.

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Clinical Update

Gore-Tex: An Alternative for Fixation Sutures

By Linda Roach, Contributing Writer, interviewing Robert A. Eden, MD, Omesh P. Gupta, MD, MBA, and Jonathan B. Rubenstein, MD

Some cataract experts are adopting sutures intended for cardiac surgery. See what they are saying about this new approach.

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Looking Deep Into the Eye: New Insights on the Choroid

By Miriam Karmel, Contributing Writer, interviewing Greg Hoffmeyer, Gerard A. Lutty, PhD, Robert F. Mullins, MS, PhD, and Glenn C. Yiu, MD, PhD

New types of OCT are providing insight into the choroid. Potential applications and current research. Web Extra: EDI-OCT images.

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Morning Rounds

The Case of the Recurrent Chalazion

By Eva Devience, MD, and F. Lawson Grumbine, MD
Edited By Steven J. Gedde, MD

Months after chalazion removal, and right after a beach trip, her eyelid started feeling “gritty.”

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Blink

Presumed (Inactive) Ophthalmomyiasis

By Rebecca A. Manning, MD, North Carolina Retina Associates, Raleigh, N.C.
Photo by Holly Fields, COA, North Carolina Retina Associates, Raleigh, N.C.

A 79-year-old African-American man was referred for an incidental finding of an abnormal right fundus during cataract evaluation.

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Journal Highlights

Ophthalmology

AMD in a multi-ethnic U.S. population. Latanoprostene bunod versus timolol maleate in open-angle glaucoma. Topical corticosteroids in conjunction with antiamoebic therapy.

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American Journal of Ophthalmology

Persistent exogenous bacterial endophthalmitis. Intravitreal aflibercept and ranibizumab injections for PCV. What does femtosecond technology add to phaco?

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JAMA Ophthalmology

Characteristics of medicare beneficiaries with glaucoma. Automated quantification of capillary nonperfusion from OCT angiography. Risk for cataract after treatment of childhood cancer.

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Other Journals

Tocilizumab for induction and maintenance of remission in GCA. Visual recovery after retinal detachment with macula off.

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News in Review

A Simpler Method for Limbal Cell Transplants

Same-day transplantation of tiny pieces of autologous limbal stem cell tissue onto a patient’s burned cornea can restore the ocular surface long term, without requiring expensive ex vivo cultivation of a larger limbal epithelial sheet before the transplant.

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Ultra-widefield Imaging Boosts Retinopathy Dx

The high cost of ultra-widefield imaging systems to remotely monitor diabetic eye disease might give ophthalmologists pause, but great benefits could lie in store for teleophthalmology programs that adopt this technology.

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Assessing Anticoagulant Risks

Patients may safely continue novel oral anticoagulants during vitreoretinal surgeries—procedures that carry inherent risk for hemorrhagic complications.

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Outreach Reduces Missed Appointments

If you want your glaucoma patients to keep their appointments, a personal phone call and letter can help.

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Academy Notebook

News, Tips, Resources

New online resource: David E.I. Pyott Glaucoma Education Center. Ask the Ethicist: Resignation during an ethics investigation.

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Destination AAO

Get Ready for Chicago

In each issue leading up to AAO 2016, EyeNet will provide you with the information you’ll need to hit the ground running when you arrive in Chicago—including a heads-up on deadlines, event previews, interviews, sneak peeks, and more.

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Practice Perfect

A Guide to Vision Aid Apps for Apple and Android Smartphones

By Linda Roach, Contributing Writer, interviewing Richard A. Harper, MD, Lee Huffman, and Terry L. Schwartz, MD

These 10 apps help patients live a fuller life. Web Extra: Vision rehabilitation, cash identification apps, and talking prescription labels.

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Savvy Coder

Coding for Sports-Related Eye Injuries

By Sue Vicchrilli, COT, OCS, Academy Director of Coding and Reimbursement, Jodi Anderson, Jennie Brown, COT, and Cindy Delaney, OCS

Case study of an injured athlete: See what was documented and the codes submitted. Web Extra: A second case study.

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Opinion

When the Physician Becomes a Patient

Ruth D. Williams, MD, Chief Medical Editor, on ophthalmologists experiencing firsthand the things they discuss with patients every day.

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Current Perspective

Measuring and Mattering

David W. Parke II, MD, CEO, on physician performance.

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Letters

Thoughts From Your Colleagues

Quickert suturing for involutional entropion.

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