PURPOSE Compare patient adherence to glaucoma therapy with morning versus evening dosing schedules. METHODS Retrospective chart review of 41 consecutive patients who had used the Travatan Dosing Aid (Alcon, Fort Worth, TX). Patients had been nonrandomly assigned morning or evening dosing at initiation of usage. Dosing aid data was recorded and analyzed using paired student t-tests where appro...

Purpose: To describe a new instrument (capsulorhexis marker) to optimize the size, shape, and centration of the capsulorhexis during phacoemulsification. Setting: Wet Lab. sponsored by Alcon laboratories. Methods: 10 goats eyes were prepared for the procedure. A specially designed capsulorhexis marker with a circular part having an inner diameter of 5.5mm was used. The lower edge of the circula...

When the images presented to each eye differ in sharpness, the fused percept remains relatively sharp. Here, we measure this effect by showing stereoscopic videos that have been blurred for one eye, or both eyes, and psychophysically determining when they appear equally sharp. For a range of blur magnitudes, the fused percept always appeared significantly sharper than the blurrier view. From th...