Our guest surgeon does a great job with a complex case of trauma. This patient has a severely dislocated crystalline…
2444: scleral tunnel for sulcus seton tube
CataractCoach.com is more than just cataract surgery, it is also glaucoma, cornea, and refractive surgery and we are expanding our…
2443: Does it matter which IOL injector?
We use IOL injectors to allow us to deliver an IOL with a 6 mm diameter optic through an incision…
2442: Podcast 94: Rupa Wong MD
Dr Rupa Wong specializes in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus at her clinic in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA and she has…
2441: Cataract Hazard Perception Test
At the UKISCRS meeting in London (November 2024), I saw a presentation from a young ophthalmologist, Dr Alasdair Simpson from…
2440: the probe just punctured the capsule
Looking at this title picture with that hole punch sign, we know that there are some serious challenges ahead. At…
2439: the 5 suture trabeculectomy
Our guest surgeon is a renowned glaucoma specialist, Prof Ramesh Ayyala and with his team of fellows and residents at…
2438: small pupil, shallow AC, stop & chop
I get emails from viewers asking how to see cases where I am the surgeon operating. This is about as…
2437: Quiz: Why did the DMEK graft detach?
This patient had a visually significant cataract as well as Fuchs’ endothelial dystrophy so our guest surgeon, Prof Bruno Trindade…
2436: everything, everywhere, all at once
Yesterday on the Cataract Coach Podcast (the top podcast in all of ophthalmology!) we featured Prof Bruno Trindade from Belo…
2435: Podcast 93: Bruno Trindade MD
Dr Bruno Trindade is a corneal, cataract, and refractive surgeon in Belo Horizonte, Brazil where is does private practice as…
2434: young surgeon’s great phaco chop
Our guest surgeon is young and at the beginning of a long career and has the skill development to perform…
2433: anterior capsule tear small pupil case
Another tough case where the patient has a small pupil, a dense cataract, and incessant head moving during surgery. This…
2432: fix zonular loss with CTS + Goretex
This is a tough case of a traumatic cataract with about half of the zonular support being compromised (6+ clock…
2431: Quiz: What’s different with cortex?
Happy New Year to all of the CataractCoach fans — thank you for a great 2024 and we are looking…
2430: secrets to success for KDB MIGS
The Kahook Dual Blade (KDB) is an instrument that can be used to cut a strip of the trabecular meshwork…
2429: MSICS for PXF with zonular loss
This patient has severe pseudo-exfoliation and you can tell from the pre-operative photo that there will be extensive zonulopathy. The…
2428: Podcast 92: David Kang MD 강성용
Dr David Kang 강성용 is a refractive and cataract surgeon in Seoul, South Korea where is also a Professor at…
2427: please stop doing ECCE with scissors
We all need to keep evolving our surgical techniques. You would never do a routine couching of a nucleus by…
2426: severe iris prolapse causes damage
Iris prolapse during cataract surgery is a complication that has happened to 100% of cataract surgeons. If you think that…
2425: You just suffered the Argentinian Flag
When looking at this picture you can see the likeness of the Argentinian flag: blue-white-blue because the capsule which was…
2424: GATT for angle recession glaucoma
When I receive videos, I click through them quickly to see the case, but I wait until I’m recording my…
2423: should you remove the pterygium?
For this patient, should you remove the pterygium months before doing cataract surgery, at the same time as cataract surgery,…
2422: IOL exchange with open capsule
Performing an IOL exchange can be tricky, particularly if the patient has already had a YAG laser capsulotomy. In this…
2421: Podcast 91: Nicole Fram MD
I first met Dr Nicole Fram almost 20 years ago when she was a resident at Wills Eye Hospital in…
2420: tough resident case of sclerokeratitis
When you study the analytics of CataractCoach videos, you may be surprised to find out that resident surgical cases are…
2419: phaco chop with a sharp 25g needle
Our guest surgeon shows that if you have great skill, you can chop the nucleus with just about any instrument…
2418: phaco & Hydrus glaucoma implant
It should come as no surprise that most of the MIGS procedures (minimally-invasive glaucoma surgery) are performed by cataract surgeons.…
2417: Quiz: Why did this IOL cause issues?
Look carefully at this picture and ask yourself why this IOL is causing issues? The patient had a seemingly routine…
2416: secrets to a great capsulorhexis
This video is also part of our new Secrets series where we teach the secrets to success in so many different situations.…
2415: traumatic cataract & fibrotic capsule
With trauma, you never know exactly what you are going to get. Look carefully at this photo and you can…
2414: Podcast 90: Lisa Nijm MD JD
The real world is a different place than what you experienced during your ophthalmology training and navigating this new frontier…
2413: USA senior resident ACGME volume
Ophthalmology residents (or registrars) in training from around the world always wonder if they are doing enough surgical volume during…
2412: striving for perfection – the mindset
Our guest surgeon has a great mindset and attitude for cataract surgery: striving for perfection. When you create that capsulorhexis,…
2411: white cataract drops into vitreous
I travel frequently to give lectures all over the world and that meant more than 20 countries in 2024 alone.…
2410: glaucoma in Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome
Did you notice the new text in our logo? It says, “Cataract, Glaucoma, Cornea & Refractive” because CataractCoach.com is your…
2409: secrets to IOL calcs in high myopia
This video is a complete cataract case (this is a sub-category on the CataractCoach.com wesbite of unedited videos of exclusively…
2408: ocular surface transplantation
Yesterday we featured Dr Edward Holland on our CataractCoach Podcast — the top podcast in all of ophthalmology. He is…
2407: Podcast 89: Edward Holland MD
Severe damage to the ocular surface can mean near total loss of vision for patients and these complex injuries require…
2406: registrar case 110 analysis
Our guest surgeon is a registrar (resident) who is in the middle of ophthalmology surgical training and this is case…
2405: pars plana posterior capsulotomy
This patient has a dense posterior capsule opacity and also has a small pupil which does not dilate with maximal…
2404: the probe just punctured the capsule
For experienced surgeons, complications involving the capsule happen more often during epi-nucleus and cortex removal than during nucleus removal. In…
2403: Quiz: What kind of IOL was here?
This patient developed severe capsular bag phimosis over the years and this has resulted in a dislocated IOL. Looking at…
2402: being self-critical is good… to a point
In this video we are going to discuss how being self-critical is good… to a point. We want to be…
2401: capsulorhexis extension? MSICS now?
This is a remarkable case for two reasons: (1) there is the complication of capsulorhexis tear out in this white…
2400: Podcast 88: Naren Shetty MD
Building a world-class eye institute and research laboratory is a large task that takes decades to accomplish. Our guest surgeon…
2399: resident case 15 vs case 180 progress
This resident is great because she/he cares enough to record cases and then submit a comparison of case 15 versus…
2398: white cornea and white cataract
This patient sustained penetrating ocular trauma in the past which resulted in a corneal leukoma and a white cataract with…
2397: four fast clips of great surgical pearls
In this video we present four fast clips, each just 1 minute long, showing great surgical pearls. The first is…
2396: large DMEK corneal graft for PBK
This patient has had many prior surgeries including cataract surgery, pars plana vitrectomy, Yamane fixated IOL, artificial iris implantation, and…