Comparative long-term outcomes of vitrectomy combined with anterior chamber intraocular lens to intra-scleral haptic fixation of posterior chamber intraocular lens.

Purpose: To evaluate the long-term clinical outcomes in patients with combined pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with anterior chamber intraocular lens (ACIOL) to intrascleral haptic fixation (ISHF) using the Agarwal technique with fibrin glue to secure the scleral flap of a posterior chamber intraocular lens.

Methods: Retrospective, consecutive, single-center, comparative case series. 83 eyes were studied.

Risk factors for complications in resident-performed cataract surgery: A systematic review.

We assessed risk factors for complications associated with resident-performed cataract surgery. Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we searched 4databases in September, 2023. We included peer-reviewed, full-text, English-language articles assessing risk factors for complications in resident performed cataract surgery.

Traumatic cataract induced by improper use of a percussion massage gun.

Purpose: We describe a case of traumatic cataract after improper use of a percussion massage gun over the periorbital area.

Observations: A 38-year-old female with a history of high myopia and fibromyalgia presented to the emergency department with painless monocular vision loss OS, noticed two days prior and described as a "white film" over her eye. BCVA was 20/20 OD and 20/600 OS.

Metabolic and proteomic indications of diabetes progression in human aqueous humor.

Diabetes mellitus is a multiorgan systemic disease impacting numerous ocular structures that results in significant ocular morbidity and often results in more frequent corneal and glaucoma surgeries for affected individuals. We hypothesize that the systemic metabolic and proteomic derangement observed in the progression of diabetes influences the composition of the aqueous humor (AH), which ultimately impacts the anterior segment health of the eye. To identify changes associated with diabetes progression, we mapped the metabolite profile and proteome of AH samples from patients with varying severities of type II diabetes (T2DM).

Responding to Patient-Initiated Verbal Sexual Harassment: Outcomes of a Pilot Training for Ophthalmologists.

Background: Sexual harassment of physicians by patients is highly prevalent and rarely reported. Little is known on how to prepare physicians to handle verbal sexual harassment that detracts from their ability to provide care but does not meet the threshold for reporting.

Purpose: To assess the impact of a sexual harassment workshop and toolkit for ophthalmologists and ophthalmology trainees on responding to patient-initiated verbal sexual harassment.

Tools for Responding to Patient-Initiated Verbal Sexual Harassment: A Workshop for Trainees and Faculty.

Introduction: Patients are the most common source of gender-based harassment of resident physicians, yet residents receive little training on how to handle it. Few resources exist for residents wishing to address patient-initiated verbal sexual harassment themselves.

Methods: We developed, taught, and evaluated a 50-minute workshop to prepare residents and faculty to respond to patient-initiated verbal sexual harassment toward themselves and others.

Accuracy of partial coherence interferometry in patients with large inter-eye axial length difference.

Background: To determine accuracy of partial coherence interferometry (PCI) in patients with large inter-eye axial eye length (AEL) difference.

Methods: Patients undergoing cataract surgery at two academic medical centers with an inter-eye axial eye length (AEL) difference of > 0.30 mm were identified and were matched to control patients without inter-eye AEL difference > 0.

Pupil expansion device use and operative outcomes with topical dilation vs intracameral epinephrine in resident-performed cataract surgery.

Purpose: To compare the use of topical dilation drops vs topical drops with the addition of intracameral epinephrine in resident-performed cataract surgery and the effects on pupil expansion device (PED) use, surgical costs, and surgical times.

Setting: Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

Design: Retrospective chart review.

A U.S. Survey of Sexual Harassment in Ophthalmology Training Using a Novel Standardized Scale.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the frequency and severity of sexual harassment toward ophthalmology trainees.

Design: Present study is an anonymous retrospective online survey.

Participants: U.

Gender Differences in Case Volume Among Ophthalmology Residents.

Importance: Although almost equal numbers of male and female medical students enter into ophthalmology residency programs, whether they have similar surgical experiences during training is unclear.

Objective: To determine differences for cataract surgery and total procedural volume between male and female residents during ophthalmology residency.

Design, Setting, Participants: This retrospective, longitudinal analysis of resident case logs from 24 US ophthalmology residency programs spanned July 2005 to June 2017.

Effect of fine-motor-skill activities on surgical simulator performance.

Purpose: To determine the effect of fine motor activity and nondominant-hand training on cataract surgical simulator (Eyesi) performance.

Setting: Departments of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa, and Veterans Affairs Health Care Systems, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

Design: Prospective controlled trial.

Integrating the Internship into Ophthalmology Residency Programs: Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology American Academy of Ophthalmology White Paper.

Future ophthalmologists will need to have broad skills to thrive in complex health care organizations. However, training for ophthalmologists does not take advantage of all of the postgraduate years (PGYs). Although the traditional residency years seem to have little excess capacity, enhancing the internship year does offer an opportunity to expand the time for ophthalmology training in the same 4 PGYs.

Description and validation of a structured simulation curriculum for strabismus surgery.

Purpose: To describe and validate a Web-based structured simulation curriculum of strabismus surgery for residents in training using noncadaveric eye models.

Methods: A pre- and posttest of cognitive skills, objective wet laboratory structured assessment of technique, and summative global evaluation form were implemented as part of a systematic ophthalmology wet lab (OWL) curriculum. Strabismus techniques were taught using a structured simulation method on noncadaveric models of eyes.

Cataract surgery in children with uveitis: retrospective analysis of intraocular lens implantation with anterior optic capture.

Purpose: To present experience with cataract extraction in 9 eyes of 7 pediatric patients with chronic uveitis and compare the technique of anterior optic capture in 5 eyes that underwent cataract extraction without optic capture of the intraocular lens (IOL) or were left aphakic.

Methods: A retrospective review of pediatric patients with chronic uveitis undergoing cataract surgery was performed, examining the preoperative and postoperative visual acuity, immunosuppressive therapy, surgical technique, complications, subsequent procedures, and need for escalation of systemic immunosuppressive therapy. The technique of anterior optic capture is described in detail.