The article by Masters, Kocak and Waite(1) published in January´s issue of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery was very much needed and very much welcome. This article is a methaanalysis of the risk of corneal keratitis in different types of contact lenses and LASIK. Articles about contact lens infectious keratitis were included if an annualized incidence could be inferred with the data of the article, if the keratitis were...

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Cataract surgery performed with a smartphone as a microscope. Video presented at the ESCRS in 2016 in Copenhagen.

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This picture was taken by Julian Tendero, Optometrist from Baviera Clinica in Albacete (Spain). It shows a metallic? foreign body after phacoemulsification. We have reviewed the subject and we here show a resume. Metallic pieces in the anterior chamber, usually attached to the iris, after phacoemulsification, are very common. The first publication I could find about it comes from Dunbar et al. in 1995 (Dunbar CM, Goble RR, Gregory DW, Church...

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The patient recovered completely in 4 months, treated only with topical steroids and mydriatics. El paciente se recuperó completamente en 4 meses, tratado únicamente con esteroides tópicos y midriáticos. We leave here the discussion and conclusion of the following paper: Doyle E, Sahu D, Ong G. Solar retinopathy after the 1999 solar eclipse in East Sussex. Eye (2002) 16:203-206 They studied 15 patients who suffered solar retinopathy as a result...

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  Presbyopia is an age-related eye condition where one of the signs is the reduction in the amplitude of accommodation, resulting in the loss of ability to change the eye’s focus from far to near. It is the most common age-related ailments affecting everyone around their mid- 40s. There were an estimated 1.272 billion cases of presbyopia worldwide in 2011. Of these, one-third of cases were among working-age people aged 40 or 45 years...

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We have compared the intermediate vision obtained by five different presbyopia correction methods: lens exchange and implantation of Acri.LISA bifocal intraocular lens, lens exchange and implantation of ReSTOR +3 bifocal intraocular lens, lens exchange and implantation of ReSTOR +2,5 in the dominant eye and ReSTOR +3 in the non-dominant eye bifocal intraocular lenses, lens exchange and implantation of Finevision trifocal intraocular lens, and...

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