Tag: case reports

First up, persistent red-tinted vision with Viagra use. A 31-year-old man drank an unknown amount (but suspected to be more than the recommended dosage) of...

This 9-year-old boy suffered a macular hole after staring at a green laser pointer. The case report was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

82% The number of OD's that would still choose optometry if they had to do it all over again according to a new survey. Don't take off...

Several news outlets (Chicago Tribune, ABC, People, Forbes, CNN etc) are covering the story about a woman who bought unapproved eclipse glasses and got solar retinopathy. Why are we talking...

An interesting article was recently written describing the vision loss seen in ultramarathoners. What is an ultramarathon? Any footrace longer than 26.2 miles. Common race lengths are...

How bad is it if a firecracker explodes in my eye? Here, let me show you a picture.

A poster presented at Optometry's Meeting discussed the ocular side effects of amantadine. What is Amantadine? It's a medication that is "currently used primarily for Parkinson's disease...

Have you ever seen a patient with a worm in their eye? The Huffington Post wrote an article about a disease that affects roughly 10 million people....

Have you ever seen a patient with Ebola? An article in Newsweek discussed the interesting retinal lesions associated with Ebola survivors. They cite this study that examined 82 Ebola...

Did you hear about those women who went blind after a stem cell treatment? You probably did because this article is everywhere (CBS, NBC, NPR, NY Daily News, NYT, Washington Post etc) but...