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When presbyopia-correcting drops were introduced, many eye care providers thought they would be a quick, easy fix for the unhappy presbyopes in our offices, perhaps envisioning wide distribution of samples [...]

In all of medicine, particularly in eye care, we have to become more attuned to using a range of providers to deliver the best care to patients. This requires a [...]

ACCORDING TO THE World Health Organization (WHO), cataracts cause one-third of worldwide blindness, affecting about 65.2 million people, as well as moderate-to-severe vision loss in 52.6 million others, 99% of [...]

REPORT OF A CASE. A 36-year-old man was referred for evaluation of an asymptomatic retinal mass lesion of the right eye discovered during routine ocular examination in 1989. Visual acuity was 20/20 OU. A previous ocular examination in 1985 had detected no abnormality. His medical and family histories included no evidence of ocular or neurologic disease. Funduscopic examination of the inferior retina of the right eye revealed a reddish intraretinal mass lesion surrounded by a rim of exudate near the equator (Figure 1). No enlarged afferent or efferent vessels were visualized, although several ectatic feeder vessels were identified on fluorescein angiography (Figure 2). The examination findings for the remainder of the peripheral retina of the right eye and of the retina of the left eye were normal.Echography confirmed a mass with high internal reflectivity compatible with a retinal angioma. Results of a computed tomographic scan of the head were