Eyes For Ears

This week we tackle Axenfeld Rieger syndrome, as well as take detours into comparisons with ICE syndromes, and genetics of other anterior segment disorders.

Unthaw your understanding of the Iridocorneal Endothelial (ICE) syndromes; Essential Iris Atrophy, Chandler Syndrome and Cogan-Reese Syndrome. 

We discuss screening protocols, and CRYO ROP, ETROP and BEAT-ROP trialsto learn how to manage retinopathy of prematurity. Guest host Fei Cai of CREOGs over Coffee is back to help.    

This week, we review the fundamentals of retinopathy of prematurity, including pathophysiology and staging. We'll return next week to talk about the landmark trials in ROP and surgical therapy. Big thank you to Fei Cai for joining us as this week's guest host; you can find her OB/Gyn review podcast, CREOGs over Coffee at creogsovercoffee.com!  

We review ophthalmic manifestations of Marfan's disease, as well as a mystery cause of vision loss in a case presentation with guest host Dr. Eri Verter.

Ben and Andrew puzzle through a mystery case of a patient who can't look up... or down? We review major causes of vertical gaze palsies, including progressive supranuclear palsies, dorsal midbrain syndrome, and more this week.   Note: This episode was reuploaded with a correction after a message from listener Tiago Fernandes. Thanks Tiago!

This week, we talk about the etiology, diagnosis, pathology and management of Acute Retinal Necrosis, and we touch on the differential diagnosis, including CMV Retinitis and Progressive Outer Retinal Necrosis.

Welcome the New Year with the second part of our review of Strabisums Fundamentals.   Check out part 1 here, or on your normal podcatcher app: https://eyes4ears.podbean.com/mf/play/5kxnk3/Episode31StrabFund_Mastered_Levelated.mp3   If you'd like to support our work on the podcast, a rating/review, or follow on Twitter @Eyes4Ears is very helpful!

Happy holidays! Our gift this season is part 1 of our review of Strabismus fundamentals   If you'd like to support us, please leave a rating or review, or follow us on Twitter @Eyes4Ears!

We're back this week to take a look at the differential for photopsias, from causes in the optical media, to retinal tears, inflammation and beyond.

Kick back and relax with Ben and Amanda as we discuss a low pressure topic: Hypotony.  

This week, Ben and Amanda review a common consult, and try to make it easy by showing there are only 7 causes to really think about. 

This week, Ben and Andrew talk about Niemann-Pick's, Gaucher's, Fabry's, and Tay-Sach's disease. 

This week Ben and Andrew chat Hurler's, Scheie's, Hunter's and Sanfilippo's disease. 

In our second episode of Beyond the Scope (renamed from "Chats"), Dr. Paul Gaudio, clinical associate professor at Yale, and medical/surgical uveitis specialist, returns to talk about his clinical experiences, surgical tips, clinical habits, how to practically start the job search, what to actually look for in your contract, and more. Let's go beyond the scope of BCSC for guidance of how to have a...

This week, Ben and Andrew talk about the ocular manifestations of sarcoidosis, diagnosis, management and treatment. Good luck to everyone about to take boards! 

Good luck to those about to take boards! This week, we cover all sorts of retinal vein occlusions; Branch, Central, and Hemi.

We discuss idiopathic intracranial hypertension, also known as pseudotumor cerebri, with frequent guest host Amanda Redfern. We chat about the diagnostic features, mechanism behind the symptoms, differential diagnosis and management

We're back with part 2 of our optics for the boards review, where we review the fundamentals of astigmatism and power crosses, with examples of how to solve problems with them.

Get your brain in gear with these fundamentals of neuro-ophthalmologic diagnostic and examination skills, with Dr. Amanda Redfern! 

This week we're splitting hairs with retinoschisis, the problem where layers within the layer are split. We're returning to our regular board review series this week, but will be back with more buddy call and optics soon.  

If you've ever thought "THE PRESSURE IS 50, WHAT DO???" take a listen to this week's Buddy Call episode, with our very own Dr. Andrew Pouw, glaucoma fellow at the Wilmer Eye Institute. The pressure is off, as he takes both beginning resident and seasoned veteran on a tour of how to handle glaucoma emergencies.

This week, we return to board review topics, including the ever high-yield optics. For senior residents or fellows studying for boards, we have not forgotten about you! While an audio format won't be your definitive way to learn optics from scratch, herein we review high yield concepts and tricky questions. Welcome to Part I of our optics series, starting with Concepts in Vergence.

We explore the retina exam and retina emergencies with Dr. Kyle Kovacs, previous chief resident at Yale, and current senior vitreoretinal surgery fellow at Cornell. This is our third episode in our "Buddy Call" series aimed at new trainees in ophthalmology. If you like our podcast and want to support us, a rating and review is very helpful. If you have feedback or more ideas for episodes, we'd lov...

We discuss Pediatrics on Call with Dr. Shagun Bhatia, our previous senior resident at Yale and now graduate of the pediatric ophthalmology fellowship at the Shiley Eye Institute at UCSD! We talk about the pediatric exam, and common pediatric ophthalmology emergencies on call. If you're a long time follower of this podcast and think this episode would be helpful for junior residents you know, it re...