The impact of vaping on ocular health: a literature review.

Purpose: Vaping, or the use of electronic cigarettes, was initially introduced as a step toward smoking cessation, but has become an increasingly popular option for smokers. Though advertised as safer than conventional cigarettes, these devices have been found to contain carcinogenic chemicals, air pollutants, and heavy metals. The purpose of this article is to shed light on the known effects of vaping on the ocular setting and raise the discussion about additional potential effects that may call for further investigation.

Visual Outcomes After Sequential Posterior Chamber Phakic IOL with Corneal Refractive Surgery (Bioptics) for the Treatment of Myopic Astigmatism.

Purpose: To report the outcomes of sequential posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens (PC-pIOL) with corneal refractive surgery in conventional (PC-pIOL prior to refractive surgery) and reverse (refractive surgery prior to PC-pIOL) bioptics for treating high myopic astigmatism.

Setting: Tertiary refractive center, Draper, Utah, USA.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Recurrent gelatinous Salzmann-like nodular lesion with prior history of astigmatic keratotomy: September consultation #1.

A 67-year-old woman was referred to our facility with declining vision in the right eye that has been present since her cataract surgery in 2016. The patient has a history of an 8-cut radial keratotomy (RK) with 2-cut astigmatic keratotomy (AK) along the vertical meridian in both eyes since 1993. She underwent superficial keratectomy of the right eye 3 times in 3 consecutive years after her cataract extraction with toric intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.