OD News Articles
Four times a year our doctors share insights on various topics in OD News, our newsletter for optometry. I hope you find this information interesting and helpful to your practice.
If you have not received certain articles, or wish to review past topics, the entire archive is available on this page. As medical eye care continues to advance and change, some information will undoubtedly be supplanted by new knowledge.
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4th April 2017
The Occludable Angle
As optometric physicians, we routinely make quick angle closure risk assessments before dilating patients for fundus exams. Although uncommon, acute angle closure can cause vision loss, eye pain, and irreversible optic nerve damage. We know patients with hyperopia and shorter axial lengths are more likely to have narrow angles. But of those, which are occludable? And how can we determine if they are good candidates for surgical treatment to reduce the risk?
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