Our guest surgeon does a great job with this tough case of an intumescent white cataract. Fortunately, there is just…
2509: Morgagnian cataract technique
A Morgagnian cataract is a type of hypermature cataract where the lens cortex has fully liquefied, causing the dense nucleus…
2508: cerclage technique pupilloplasty
Performing a pupilloplasty can be challenging since we are working with very delicate iris tissue, in the confines of the…
2507: two pearls for a great capsulorhexis
I used to think that the fewer grabs of the capsulorhexis, the better and I took pride in performing a…
2506: cataract surgery in corneal transplant
When we perform cataract surgery in an eye with a previous corneal transplant, we must do things a little differently…
2505: Podcast 103: Greg Parkhurst MD
Nothing beats hard work and determination. And that certainly sums up the stellar career trajectory of Dr Greg Parkhurst. He…
2504: resident surgeon tries vertical chop
I am proud of any resident surgeon who is driven to learn new techniques during training and then to upload…
2503: explanting a Baikoff phakic IOL
There was a time when anterior chamber phakic IOLs were popular for the refractive treatment of high myopia. The challenge…
2502: removing cortex before the nucleus
Sometimes you need to think differently in order to innovate. In essentially every cataract surgery that I have performed, I…
2501: Quiz: Where did the holes come from?
Time for another CataractQuiz™ to test your skills, knowledge, and power of observation. In this video, our anonymous guest surgeon…
2500: how to free the sticky haptic
Today is 2500 days in a row without ever missing a single day! That is what we have accomplished with…
2499: this opacity is stuck to the capsule
I was performing a cataract surgery case recently and the patient had a central opacity stuck to the posterior capsule.…
2498: Podcast 102: Nikolina Budimlija MD
Our guest today is Dr Nikolina Budimlija who runs a dedicated Ocular Surface Disease Clinic and has a deep expertise…
2497: resident case 100 evaluation
If you are a learning cataract surgery, this video shows you about where your skills should be by case 100.…
2496: Rosatelli spin for a soft cataract
Our guest surgeon does a great job with this case using the nucleus spinning technique made famous by Dr Neto…
2495: the capsulorhexis is running out!
You have once chance to save this: which way do you pull it now? Look at the arrows on the…
2494: The IOL is stuck in the incision
This is an unusual complication but still one that we have covered before. Four years ago with video 1126, we…
2493: very dense cataract with zonular loss
This patient presents with a decade long history of very poor vision out of one eye. While there is no…
2492: fixing this overhanging cystic bleb
Our guest surgeon on yesterday’s CataractCoach Podcast was Dr Lucy Shen, a glaucoma expert from Mass Eye / Harvard in…
2491: Podcast 101: Lucy Shen MD
Dr Lucy Shen is an associate professor of ophthalmology at Mass Eye & Ear, Harvard Medical School where she specializes…
2490: resident case 25 evaluation
Today is the day, March 1, 2025 when we launch our sister channel RetinaRounds.com so please go check it out…
2489: cataract with vitreous hemorrhage
This patient has vitreous hemorrhage and a cataract and will undergo combined phaco, IOL implantation, and pars plana vitrectomy. The…
2488: trying to remove cortex but then this
Looking at the title picture, we all feel a little pain. This happens to all surgeons at some point: we…
2487: femto cataract with zonular absence
In most cataract surgery cases, the femtosecond laser does not offer any advantage over a proper capsulorhexis performed by an…
2486: first patented AI for IOL calcs
Today the idea of using AI to help with complex problems seems obvious, but this was not the case 10…
2485: vitreous prolapse after YAG laser
Every surgery has some element of risk, no matter how small or easy the procedure happens to be. We will…
2484: Podcast 100: Pradeep Prasad MD
For our 100th podcast episode, we have a very special guest, Prof. Pradeep Prasad, MD, MBA who is the host…
2483: Quiz: Why the recurrent bleeding?
This patient had cataract surgery 6 years ago and has suffered from recurrent vitreous hemorrhage and uveitis ever since. Looking…
2482: Phaco+GATT in angle closure glaucoma
We know that for patients with narrow angles and cataracts, the best way to address their issues is to perform…
2481: dense cataract horizontal chop
Our guest surgeon does a great job with this dense whitish cataract using the horizontal chop technique. These cases can…
2480: pinhole pupilloplasty for corneal scar
This young patient sustained a ruptured globe injury with a large central corneal laceration and puncture of the crystalline lens.…
2479: When the speculum won’t open more
This patient has narrow palpebral fissures and when the speculum is placed for cataract surgery, we cannot even expose limbus…
2478: using trypan blue to stain the TM
When performing gonioscopy on this patient in the clinic, our guest surgeon noted that it was challenging to see the…
2477: Podcast 99: Rich Davidson MD
Dr Rich Davidson is an anterior segment surgeon and Professor at the University of Colorado, USA. He has spent his…
2476: transconjunctival MSICS
When performing a scleral incision, I like to do it in two layers: making a conjunctival peritomy first, then making…
2475: MSICS with Pars Plana Vitrectomy
Our guest surgeon does a great combination case of removing a dense cataract with MSICS (manual shelved-incision cataract surgery) and…
2474: this is going to be a tough case!
This patient has a small eye with a small pupil, shallow anterior chamber, and pseudo-exfoliation. That will make the case…
2473: Quiz: Why the sudden cataract?
Another CataractQuiz™ for you: This younger patient (age 30-40) developed a cataract suddenly over the course of a few days.…
2472: dislocated IOL and bag with PXF
This patient had cataract surgery done many years ago and everything was great until recently. The patient now presents to…
2471: Learn the ominous Snap Sign!
Professor Ronald Yeoh from Singapore taught us all about the Snap Sign many years ago. The “snap” is when the…
2470: Podcast 98: Dee Stephenson MD
Our podcast guest is Dr Dee Stephenson who is a cataract surgeon in Venice, Florida, USA who has a passion…
2469: cataract after intra-vitreal injection
With tens of millions of intra-vitreal injections being performed worldwide, a seemingly rare complication like capsule rupture happens to many…
2468: the prior vitrectomy hit the capsule
This patient had 4 prior pars plana vitrectomies: the first was to treat a retinal detachment, then the patient re-detached…
2467: Why am I getting corneal edema?
Time for our large, worldwide group of tens of thousands of ophthalmologists to help out a colleague. This anonymous surgeon…
2466: CataractQuiz: Should you YAG this?
Look at this photo and you will see that the posterior capsule is very cloudy. The optic of the IOL…
2465: approach to short axial lengths
I enjoy operating on very myopic eyes because there is so much room within the anterior segment of the eye.…
2464: great pearls for DMEK surgery
Yesterday on the CataractCoach Podcast (the top podcast in all of ophthalmology – IYKYK) we learned from Dr Jack Parker…
2463: Podcast 97: Jack Parker MD PhD
Dr Jack Parker is a corneal specialist who has truly mastered the art of lamellar surgery and amazingly performs more…
2462: retrieving this dislocated IOL
Looking at this title picture you can see that the IOL is very dislocated which much of it well into…
2461: pterygium without sutures or glue
Pterygium surgery with a conjunctival autograft has been shown to be a reliable method which achieves good results with a…