Publications by authors named "J L Sokol"

The patient is a 63-year-old female with past ocular history of end-stage glaucoma in her OD. To maintain symmetry and achieve cosmesis with her right orbit, she chose to proceed with enucleation of the eye with a donor sclera-wrapped 20-mm silicone sphere implant. After 1 year, she developed right enophthalmos due to volume loss.

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  • - A 64-year-old man with no medical care for 10 years was transferred to a trauma center after an unwitnessed fall, where he exhibited lethargy and significant eye swelling (festoons) along with ectropion.
  • - Tests revealed he had severe hypothyroidism leading to myxedema coma, but his condition improved with treatment.
  • - After surgically removing the festoons, the patient was pleased with the results, highlighting a rare case in the literature and the need to consider both appearance and function in surgical corrections.
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Background And Objective: Three-dimensional heads-up display (HUD) systems have emerged as an alternative to standard operating microscope (SOM) in the operating room. The goal of this study was to quantitatively measure vitreoretinal surgeon posture across visualization methods.

Methods: Ergonomic data was collected from 64 cases at two tertiary eye care centers.

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