IACLE Information Interface

February 2006

Information Interface is an IACLE - provided resource that includes useful information and/or the location of information that can be accessed readily.

Information is gleaned monthly from newsletters, journals, abstracts, magazines, relevant websites, and professional associations, as well as manufacturers of contact lenses, lens care products, and clinical and/or research instrumentation.

For some websites, registration [at no charge] may be required for initial access.  Some websites offer free electronic newsletters (e-zines).

Most journals offer abstracts at no charge but usually, full texts are not available free-of-charge unless your institution has an arrangement with the publishers, you are a member of an affiliated organization, you have a personal subscription, or you agree to pay for individual articles).

Ophthalmology Medscape Ophthalmology MedPulse

High Dietary Antioxidant Intake May Reduce Risk for Age-Related Macular Degeneration (www.medscape.com/viewarticle/520823  – (registration [no charge] may be required for your initial access to this very useful website).  A regular electronic ophthalmological newsletter (e-zine) is available from Medscape.

To subscribe, visit: https://profreg.medscape.com/px/newsletter.do  and indicate your own area(s) of interest.

Contact Lens Spectrum - 2006 February Issue www.clspectrum.com

2005: The Year in Contact Lenses (A Review of 2005 & Predictions for 2006) Corneal Assessment for Contact Lens Wear Fitting Post-LASIK Progressive Myopes with Accelerated Ortho-K The Hybrid Lens Re-emerges (SynergEyes™) Contact Lens Materials for Babies Managing Meibomian Gland Dysfunction in Lens Wearers Soft Contact Lens Deposition (Part I) A New Look at Vascularized Limbal Keratitis (VLK) (Part 1)

Optometric Management - 2006 February Issue www.optometric.com

Contact Lenses for Your Over-40 Patients Tips, Trends, & News You Can Use (News from the 2005 Am Acad of Optom Meeting) Improving Compliance

Review of Optometry Online - 2006 February Issue www.revoptom.com

Ozone Depletion May Cause Increased Cataract Incidence (refers to: West SK et al. (2005).    Model of risk of cortical cataract in the US population with exposure to increased ultraviolet radiation due to stratospheric ozone depletion. Am J Epidemiol. 162(11): 1080 – 1088). Thin Is Not In After LASIK

Review of Ophthalmology Online - 2006 February Issue www.revophth.com

Managing Technology Overload Heighten Dry-Eye Situational Awareness Warming Up to Relief of Post-LASIK Dry Eye Assembling the Pieces of the Puzzle (Glaucoma)

GP Lens Institute Website and Symposia - 2006 February Issue www.rgpli.org

A symposium on Feb 13 was:  GP Toric Applications in High Astigmatism with Joel Silbert, OD (Brief summaries of previous symposia are also available on this site)

The most recent symposium was on March 14:  GP Bifocal Fitting & Problem Solving with Richard Baker, OD, FAAO

Various GP lens-related Clinical Education topics are available on this site

Silicone Hydrogels Website - 2006 February Issue www.siliconehydrogels.org

Expect the Unexpected-Refitting from Conventional Hydrogels An Evaluation of Soft Lens Fit in Relation to Corneal Topography  (throw away your keratometer?) Prescribing Higher Powers in a Silicone Hydrogel Lens (beyond +6 or 8 and –10 or 12D)

Global Contact Website - 2006 February Issue www.gclabsite.com

The Interesting Web sites section is a comprehensive listing of the URLs of most relevant contact lens-related entities arranged under logical headings.

Clinical & Experimental Optometry - 2006 Jan/Feb Issue www.optometrists.asn.au/ceo   (for CEO up to and including Nov/Dec 2005)

www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0816-4622   (Jan 2006 –)

Note: Up to Nov/Dec 2005 edition, abstracts and full text are available at no charge.

From Jan/Feb 2006  (current) edition, abstracts are available at no charge but full texts are only available to OAA members, CEOptometry subscribers, and staff of subscribing institutions, or by purchase of the particular articles.

An evaluation of silicone-hydrogel lenses worn on a daily wear basis A clinical and optical evaluation of a modified lens for irregular corneae (piggyback lenses) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and vision

Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology - 2006 February Issue http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/ceo

Bacteria commonly isolated from keratitis specimens retain antibiotic susceptibility to fluoroquinolones and gentamicin plus cephalothin

Optometry & Vision Science - 2006 January Issue www.optvissci.com

Tear Breakup Dynamics: A Technique for Quantifying Tear Film Instability. Two Presentations of Contact Lens-Induced Papillary Conjunctivitis (CLPC) in Hydrogel Lens Wear: Local and General. Computational Aspects of the Visual Strehl Ratio.

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye - 2005 December Issue (J of the Brit CL Assoc) www.intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/clae/

Are silicone hydrogel lenses safer? (No abstract available) An investigation into the antimicrobial mechanisms of action of two contact lens biocides using electron microscopy Efficacy of multipurpose solutions against Acanthamoeba species. An evaluation of corneal nerve morphology and function in moderate keratoconus Subconjunctival cyst-like formations following impression cytology Atypical unilateral superior keratoconus in young males

Eye & Contact Lens - 2006 January Issue (formerly the CLAO Journal) http://www.claojournal.org

The Effect of Multipurpose Solutions on the Ocular Surface Pseudomonas aeruginosa-Induced Inflammation in the Rat Extended-Wear Contact Lens Model. An Evaluation of the Efficacy of a Cyclosporine-Based Dry Eye Therapy When Used With Marketed Artificial Tears as Supportive Therapy in Dry Eye. Combining Central and Peripheral Videokeratoscope Maps to Investigate Total Corneal Topography. Use of Intralimbal Rigid Gas-Permeable Lenses for Pellucid Marginal Degeneration, Keratoconus, and After Penetrating Keratoplasty. A Case of Acanthamoeba Keratitis as a Result of a Cosmetic Contact Lens. Overnight Orthokeratology Experience With XO Material. Biomechanically Coupled Curvature Transfer in Normal and Keratoconus Corneal Collagen.

Investigative Ophthalmology - 2006 February Issue www.iovs.org    For faster access outside North America use: http://intl.iovs.org

Longitudinal Changes in Visual Acuity in Keratoconus Prevalence and Treatment of Helicobacter pylori in Patients with Blepharitis Conjunctival Surface Changes in Patients with Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Transmission Electron Microscopy Study A Femtosecond Laser Creates a Stronger Flap than a Mechanical Microkeratome

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica - 2006 February Issue www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1395-3907

Monoamine receptors in human corneal epithelium and endothelium Slit-scan tomography evaluation of the anterior chamber and corneal configurations at different ages

Ophthalmic Teaching Resources www.ophthalmic.hyperguides.com     

Free registration is required.  A wide range of teaching materials is available.  Topics offered lean towards the ophthalmological.

Medicine Week in Review - Medscape Today MedPulse

Eating Fruits and Vegetables May Reduce Stroke Risk (www.medscape.com/viewarticle/522582    – (registration [no charge] may be required for your initial access to this very useful website).    Regular, specialized electronic medical newsletters (e-zines) are also available from Medscape. To subscribe to any of these, visit: https://profreg.medscape.com/px/newsletter.do  and indicate your own area(s) of interest.

General Interest

NewScientist - http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns

Technology www.slashdot.org www.theregister.co.uk www.theinquirer.org www.dpreview.com  (an excellent digital camera website)

IACLE is indebted to its sponsors for their generous support of IACLE’s initiatives in furthering global contact lens education

CIBA Vision Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Bausch & Lomb CooperVision AMO Alcon Laboratories Menicon Europe

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