October 15, 2017

Features

Case Report

Weak in the Knees: Miller Fisher Syndrome

While rare, this Guillain-Barré variant has distinct clinical characteristics, and good outcomes often prevail.

Dry Eye

Motivate Your Patients with Meibomian Gland Imaging Techniques

Take a lesson from how this specialty practice uses imaging to help combat dry eye disease.

When Dry Eye Disease is a Secondary Condition

Identify the source of ocular surface dryness by considering these common instigators.

Nutrition

Trendy Diets: Do They Put Your Patients at Risk?

Some prioritize a single goal over all others. Here’s how to ensure your patients are caring for their ocular and systemic health.

Optometric Study Center

Kids and Pharmaceuticals: How to Tailor Your Therapy

Treating infections in a pediatric population can be tricky. These tips and tricks can help.

Pediatrics

Managing Amblyopia: Can Vision Therapy Cut It?

New technologies are making this once-controversial treatment option more viable.

Testing Children for Accommodative and Convergence Disorders

To obtain accurate test results for pediatric patients, consider these clinical strategies.

Departments

Chairside

Gettin’ Old Has Its Perks

Dreams do come true if you work hard enough—or, in my case, wait long enough.

Clinical Quandaries

Getting the Lay of the Land

Before cataract surgery, detect problems and ensure proper calculations with corneal topography.

Coding Connection

Get the Picture: Coding MGD Imaging

Is educating patients with ocular surface imaging billable to carriers?

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

A Sector-Specific Approach

This option can give practitioners more control when fitting sclerals–and improve some patients’ success.

Diagnostic Quiz

Plumbing the Depths

Focus on Refraction

Discretion is the Better Part of Valor

A decompressive surgery patient makes strides in vision that come short of binocularity. Sometimes, good is good enough.

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

All for Nothing... and Everything

Just how much testing is necessary for a glaucoma suspect in need? All you can offer.

News Review

Macular Disease | Retina | Stem Cell Clinics

Outlook

Status Update

Developments in neurology could radically change the daily life of the optometrist.

Product Review

Devices & Equipment | Software | Vitamins | Contact Lenses & Lens Care

Retina Quiz

Worm Your Way Out of This

What’s lurking behind this young woman’s vision loss?

Surgical Minute

Is That an IOL on Your Retina?

IOLs can dislocate for any number of reasons, and patients will need your expertise to see them through the complicated fix.

Therapeutic Review

Master Uveitis Prescribing

We have numerous options, but cost, efficacy and access can vary considerably.

Through My Eyes

Flex Your Core Muscles

Although the medical model is critical to the profession, we shouldn’t forget our elemental knowledge of vision testing—it’s a real life-saver for patients.

Urgent Care

A Nerve-racking Experience

The need to distinguish true papilledema from a benign anomaly puts our diagnostic skills to the test—while the clock is ticking.