Course name | Date

27 Gauge Modified Yamane 3 Port Sutureless IOL Scleral Fixation

Type: Surgical Videos
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Nimesh A. Patel, MD; Justin H. Townsend, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Patel, Townsend

3-Piece Intraocular Lens in the Anterior Chamber

Type: Ophthalmic Images
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Allister G. Gibbons, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Gibbons

An otherwise asymptomatic 82-year-old patient with uncorrected visual acuity of 20/25 at distance presents for a routine eye exam in clinic.

Anterior Chamber Intra-Ocular Lens

Type: Ophthalmic Images
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Harry W. Flynn, Jr., MD; Nimesh A. Patel, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Flynn, Patel

A well-positioned ACIOL with superior nasal iridotomy.

Anterior Dislocation of Crystalline Lens with Corneal Edema

Type: Ophthalmic Images
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Ashley M. Crane, MD; Nimesh A. Patel, MD; Nathan L. Scott, MD, MPP
Presenter/Faculty: Crane, Patel, Scott

Traumatic anterior dislocation of crystalline lens with Descemet’s folds in the cornea. The patient was treated with lensectomy and vitrectomy. Due to the high myopia, there was no need for secondary intraocular lens or contact lens. The final vision uncorrected visual acuity was 20/30 aphakic.

Argentinian Flag

Type: Surgical Videos
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Allister G. Gibbons, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Gibbons

Argentinian Flag

Type: Surgical Videos
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Allister G. Gibbons, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Gibbons

Black Cataract

Type: Online Grand Rounds
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Presenter(s): Ronaldo Nuesi, MD
Faculty Discussant(s): Zubair Ansari, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Ansari, Nuesi
Black Cataract A patient with no past ocular history presented with painless vision loss to HM in the left eye over last 6 weeks. The patient had poor, chronically declining visual acuity in that eye for years but did not have access to care. Slit lamp exam was notable for a dense, black cataract i…

Candida Albicans Keratitis

Type: Online Grand Rounds
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Presenter(s): Jerry Hsu, MD, MS
Faculty Discussant(s): Guillermo Amescua, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Amescua, Hsu
Candida Albicans Keratitis A young patient with a past ocular history of Stevens Johnson Syndrome and prior Candida and Providencia keratitis presented with multifocal white corneal infiltrates several months following a penetrating keratoplasty of the same eye. The patient’s exam was notable for…

Christmas Tree Cataract in Myotonic Dystrophy

Type: Ophthalmic Images
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Nimesh A. Patel, MD; Swarup S. Swaminathan, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Patel, Swaminathan

The multicolored appearance is due to needle shaped polychromatic peptide crystals in the cortex or nucleus of the lens. These are not generally visually significant.

CZ70BD Dislocated Lens Rescue with Scleral Fixation

Type: Surgical Videos
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Patrick Staropoli, MD; Nicolas A. Yannuzzi, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Staropoli, Yannuzzi

Dense Cataract with miLOOP

Type: Surgical Videos
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Neel D. Pasricha, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Pasricha

Dislocated White Cataract Mimicking Tumor

Type: Ophthalmic Images
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Nimesh A. Patel, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Patel

B-scan ultrasound shows a well circumscribed mass inferiorly with focal hyper-densities. This can mimic a tumor, but the patient has a history of trauma and the object in question is a dislocated crystalline lens.

Elevated Intraocular Pressure After Phakic Posterior Chamber Intraocular Lens Placement

Type: Online Grand Rounds
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Presenter(s): Humberto Salazar, III, MD
Faculty Discussant(s): Luis E. Vazquez, MD, PhD; Sonia H. Yoo, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Salazar, Vazquez, Yoo
Elevated Intraocular Pressure After Phakic Posterior Chamber Intraocular Lens Placement A patient with a history of high myopia and contact lens intolerance underwent uncomplicated placement of phakic posterior chamber intraocular lenses in both eyes. She was started on a postoperative tapering cou…

Epithelial Downgrowth

Type: Online Grand Rounds
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Vetted By: Carol L. Karp, MD
Vetted Date: June 21, 2025
Presenter(s): Ghada J. AlBayyat, MD
Faculty Discussant(s): Sander R. Dubovy, MD; Carol L. Karp, MD
Presenter/Faculty: AlBayyat, Dubovy, Karp
Epithelial Downgrowth This case presents a 56-year-old female who presented with dramatic decrease of vision over a one-year duration. Patient has previously undergone both eyes corneal transplant, glaucoma drainage device. Patient developed right eye iris cyst, that started growing occupying the a…

Epithelial Downgrowth

Type: Online Grand Rounds
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Presenter(s): Benjamin Meyer, MD
Faculty Discussant(s): Carol L. Karp, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Karp, Meyer
Epithelial Downgrowth A patient with a history of keratoconus treated with penetrating keratoplasty, bilateral glaucoma, and cataracts underwent cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation with iris cyst resection. Postoperatively, she developed persistent epithelial downgrowth leading to…

Fusariam Vetinarium Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy with Intraocular Lens Removal

Type: Surgical Videos
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Michelle M. Falcone, MD; Nimesh A. Patel, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Falcone, Patel

Intraocular Lens Exchange

Type: Surgical Videos
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Allister G. Gibbons, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Gibbons

IOL Exchange + SFT Pupilloplasty

Type: Surgical Videos
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Guillermo Amescua, MD; Neel D. Pasricha, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Amescua, Pasricha

Iris Cyst

Type: Ophthalmic Images
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Original Contributor(s): Carol L. Karp, MD; Erin Ong, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Karp, Ong

Iris cyst

Lens

Type: Medical Student Education
Include in Catalogue?: Yes
Presenter(s): Chris R. Alabiad, MD
Presenter/Faculty: Alabiad

In this module, we will look at:




Anatomy of the Lens


Cataracts