Aaron Sobol, MD
  Corneal and Refractive Surgery
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I am a board-certified ophthalmologist interested in asp.net and vb.net programming.  I have posted some visual studio programs below to the left to help with common ophthalmic calculations.  I occasionally post photos and clinical scenarios from my practice.



Latest Blog Entries

 Tuesday, November 18, 2008


first step on an iPhone app   
I've been working on writing an IOL calculator for the iPhone, but had to learn how to write objective-c first.  Here's my first attempt at a program with xcode.  I still have to clean up the significant digits and a textbox for target postop refraction.  Sadly, all these programs are only for my personal use because of trademark and licensing issues.





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 Wednesday, November 12, 2008


LASIK flap   
A nice shot of the LASIK flap on my right eye with the RTVue's flap measuring application.




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 Saturday, October 11, 2008


Lumigan side effect   
I've posted a few times on this but this is the first patient in my practice that wanted to change medications to get her eyelashes to grow.  The right eye has been on Lumigan for five or six months and the left eye is well-controlled following SLT.  The patient wants to start using Lumigan in her left eye just for the side-effect.  Luckily, she isn't having any periorbital skin pigmentation or iris changes.




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 Wednesday, October 08, 2008


Flomax cataract cases   
Man, I've had a lot of these recently.  The first photo shows a case from last month where I needed SIX hooks to keep the iris in place, and that was with a subincisional hook to control the iris below the wound.  You can still see the hexagonal pupil here but it has since resolved to a round pupil.  The second photo is straight through the microscope eyepiece with a digital camera, just to see if it could be done; I placed four hooks in a diamond configuation but had to add one under the paracentesis.








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 Wednesday, October 08, 2008


Combined cilioretinal artery occlusion with central retinal vein occlusion   
Rare, but there have been a few case reports and one case series published.   I think that the macula has some patchy ischemic retinal whitening (PIRW) in this young patient.



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