What the Fundus Keeping you informed about new things in the world of eyeballs. Research Article Podcast Admin News Article New podcast Podcast We missed a week last week because of the craziness of Thanksgiving travel. There is a new podcast out now, though, discussing the link between severe glaucoma and cognitive impairment. I wrote a little blurb about this article already. You can subscribe to our podcast here or anywhere you find podcasts. Read More mikeeyes in 01 Dec 2021 No Comments The association between smoking and alcohol intake with AMD Research Article We have all been told for years that smoking can increase risk for developing age-related macular degeneration. The study Association of Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, Blood Pressure, Body Mass Index, and Glycemic Risk Factors With Age-Related Macular Degeneration from the November 2021 issue of JAMA Ophthalmology, shows that there is a correlation between smoking and advanced […] Read More mikeeyes in 30 Nov 2021 No Comments Possible link between gestational diabetes and high refractive error Research Article A paper published on August 17, 2021 in Diabetalogia, “Association of maternal diabetes during pregnancy with high refractive error in offspring: a nationwide population-based cohort study” analyzed over 2 million people born between 1977 and 2016. It found that these people had a 39% increased risk of having high refractive errors of all types — […] Read More mikeeyes in 22 Nov 2021 No Comments Possible link between glaucoma and cognitive impairment Research Article I very much enjoyed reading this paper. Lower Cognitive Function in Patients With Functionally and Structurally Severe Glaucoma: The LIGHT Study in the October 2021 edition of Journal of Glaucoma. This quote says it all right here. “This cross-sectional study of 172 patients with glaucoma showed that functional and structural glaucoma damage was significantly associated with […] Read More mikeeyes in 17 Nov 2021 No Comments Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy Research Article Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) is a subset of exudative AMD. Turns out that PCV patients are less sensitive to anti-VEGF therapies, so it’s very important to make this differentiation early in the diagnosis. Differentiating Exudative Macular Degeneration and Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy Using OCT B-Scan PCV presents with specific U-shaped elevations in the RPE using OCT-B. […] Read More mikeeyes in 15 Nov 2021 No Comments Laser therapy in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy Research Article Chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (cCSC) is something we run into all the time in practice. Acute CSC resolves without intervention in about 84% of cases within 6 months. What should we do in those that don’t resolve? “However, the disease has a strong tendency to become chronic manifesting in frequent recurrence or persistent subretinal fluid […] Read More mikeeyes in 13 Nov 2021 No Comments Factors affecting response to laser trabeculoplasty in glaucoma Research Article Given my interest in the anterior segment and myopia control, I will freely admit that I am not the best at treating glaucoma. I know my limits. That said, it has driven me to learn as much about it as humanly possible. This paper gives an excellent data set for why laser trabeculoplasty should be […] Read More mikeeyes in 10 Nov 2021 No Comments COVID’s effects on myopia progression News Article I am linking to this mainly because it is not a journal article. This is a news website posting something for non-eye doctors. Thankfully, they got two people who are at the forefront of myopia research, Debbie Jones and Kate Gifford, to write the article. Simply spending more time outside can delay the onset of myopia. Direct […] Read More mikeeyes in 08 Nov 2021 No Comments The association between blood pressure, blood pressure medications, and glaucoma in a nationwide electronic health records database Research Article A retrospective study in the journal Ophthalmology reporting that low blood pressure has a significant correlation with developing open angle glaucoma. Interestingly, the association was not there for people with low blood pressure as a secondary effect from being treated for hypertension. Read More mikeeyes in 01 Nov 2021 No Comments Degree of Myopia and Glaucoma Risk: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis Research Article A lot of great information from this study in the October 2021 edition of American Journal of Ophthalmology. “We found that for each unit (1 D) increase in myopia, the risk of glaucoma increases by approximately 20%. The risk more steeply increases in high-degree myopia, representing a significant non-linear relationship.” If you look more granularly […] Read More mikeeyes in 30 Oct 2021 No Comments Posts navigation 1 2 Next Search Search Search Recent Posts New podcast The association between smoking and alcohol intake with AMD Possible link between gestational diabetes and high refractive error Possible link between glaucoma and cognitive impairment Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy Subscribe to our podcast. © 2021 What the Fundus Powered by WordPress Whiteboard Theme ↑