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Spigelman Alan V MD Facs has been selected for the 2013 Best of Bloomfield Hills Award in the Ophthalmology Physicians category by the Bloomfield Hills Award Program.
Each year, the Bloomfield Hills Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Bloomfield Hills area a great place to live, work and play.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2013 Bloomfield Hills Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Bloomfield Hills Award Program and data provided by third parties.
We have joined such an elite group of small businesses. The Bloomfield Hills Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the Bloomfield Hills area. Each year, they identify companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
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Grosinger, Spigelman, & Grey provide some of the most comprehensive LASIK Eye surgery in Detroit, and its surrounding areas. With such a level of expertise, they’ll have your vision back to 100% in record time. In many patients’ testimonials, nothing but high praise is given to the one-of-a-kind team that is “Eye Michigan”. Charlene T., a long time patient that moved to Chicago, said that she drove over four hours back to Detroit to get LASIK from Dr. Grosinger! According to her, it was worth every penny as she’s’ trusted the team at Grosinger, Spigelman & Grey for over 20 years. A follow-up consultation did in fact show that her vision was back to normal, and that there was no longer a need to wear corrective lenses.
Grosinger, Spigelman & Grey can deliver amazing results, however bad your eye condition is, with state-of-the-art custom LASIK eye surgery for the people of the Detroit –Metropolitan area. What that means is the ALLEGRETTO WAVE laser system they use has even more precision than its predecessors. This allows for a correctional surgery that is tailored to the unique shape of your eyes, giving you results you’ll be able to see for yourself in no time at all. In the end you’ll be happy you chose G, S & G for your LASIK eye surgery.
If you live within the Detroit area and suffer from nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, cataracts, or glaucoma please visit www.eyemichigan.com or call (248) 333-2900 to schedule your appointment for corrective surgery today.
SEATTLE, Washington — Researchers can use 3 significant predictive factors to figure out which patients with open-angle glaucoma are at greatest risk for rapid progression and visual field loss.
“We looked at who had fast visual progression to see how they did and if there were any clinical or demographic factors associated with rapid progression,” Meera Ramanathan, MD, from the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles, told Medscape Medical News.
Dr. Ramanathan and colleagues assessed 767 eyes from 566 participants in the Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Study. Patients with open-angle glaucoma who had a worse mean deviation to their visual field, a greater vertical cup-to-disc ratio at baseline, or who were older were significantly more likely to see a rapid decay of their visual field.
The team used multiple regression analysis to compare the 222 eyes that progressed rapidly with the 545 eyes that progressed slowly.
Rapid progression was defined as a rate of visual field changes of at least 36% per year.
The findings were presented in a poster session that garnered a lot of attention here at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2013 Annual Meeting.
Table. Baseline Predictors of Rapid Glaucoma Progression
| Predictor | Odds Ratio | 95% Confidence Interval | P Value |
| Worse mean deviation | 1.12 | 1.09–1.16 | <.0001 |
| Greater vertical disc-to-cup ratio | 1.23 | 1.09–1.39 | .001 |
| Older age | 1.23 | 1.02–1.49 | .030 |
Factors that pointed to an increased risk for progression, but were not statistically significant, included being male (odds ratio [OR], 1.37; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.97 – 1.93; P = .071) and having worse visual acuity at baseline (OR, 1.93; 95% CI, 0.92 – 3.99; P = .077).
George Chiou, PhD, from the Institute of Ocular Pharmacy at the Texas A&M University System in Houston, who was asked by Medscape Medical News to comment on the study, said that this information is very useful for diagnosis and for monitoring progression of the disease.
“Antiglaucoma drugs can be prescribed and adjusted more precisely as a result,” he noted.
Shuchi Patel, MD, an ophthalmologist from Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, had a similar reaction. “The question of who will progress is of paramount importance. The rate of glaucoma progression determines the frequency of visits, therapeutic options, goals, and when to proceed with surgical intervention. Currently, physicians use a combination of functional and structural tests for monitoring for progression, as well as some personalized algorithms, but these are not perfect or altogether scientific.”
We might be getting a peek into a crystal ball.
Dr. Patel added that “this study is very clinically relevant because if we could come up with a proven list of risk factors that indicate high risk for progression, we might be getting a peek into a crystal ball.”
Rei Sakata, MD, from the University of Tokyo in Japan, told Medscape Medical News that this study “confirms the significance of the evaluation of the optic disc [structure] and visual field [function] at the initial visit, although there seems to be a variety of glaucoma progression-related factors.”
For instance, “there is a different composition rate of glaucoma by race,” she explained. Normal-tension glaucoma is the most common presentation in Asian patients. In addition, open-angle and normal-tension glaucoma may have different mechanisms, related systemic and ocular factors, and treatment strategies.
Dr. Sakata was principal investigator on a study assessing the factors that contribute to visual field loss in patients with normal-tension glaucoma (J Glaucoma. 2013;22:250-254).
It would have been helpful if the researchers had included some predictors of visual field progression in the regression analyses, “such as central corneal thickness and blood pressure,” Dr. Sakata said. However, “they did identify some risk factors for glaucoma progression, which is a great service.”
Point-wise exponential regression analysis facilitated the classification of patients into the fast and slow progression groups. This strategy to detect the visual field rate of decay in patients with glaucoma was validated in a previous study by Joseph Caprioli, MD, and colleagues (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2012;53:5403-5409). Dr. Caprioli, also from the Jules Stein Eye Institute, was part of the current study.
Dr. Ramanathan and her colleagues also performed a statistical “cross validation” of their findings. They sampled two thirds of the study population and identified rapidly progressing patients using the predictors from their logistic regression. They then identified coefficient estimates and applied them to the remaining one third of participants. After repeating this calculation 1000 times, they determined an average area-under-the-curve value, which showed that their factors carry a 0.72 predictive value for progression of glaucoma.
This study was not funded by outside sources. Dr. Ramanathan, Dr. Patel, and Dr. Sakata have disclosed no relevant financial relationships. Dr. Caprioli reports being a consultant and receiving financial support from Allergan. Dr. Chiou is chief scientific officer of MacuCLEAR, Inc, a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on vascular disorders of the eye.
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2013 Annual Meeting: Abstract D0163. Presented May 7, 2013.
Via Medscape
Studies have shown that leafy greens, like spinach and broccoli, have shown significant effects of protection against Cataract. Cataracts are caused by pollution and ultraviolet radiation, for most as they get older. About 20 million people and counting suffer from cataracts in the United States alone, but there are preventive actions you can take, like eating better and using UV protection. However, if you already suffer from cataracts, surgery is always an option with an almost perfect success rate.
Lutein and zeaxanthin, two antioxidants found in leafy green vegetables, have shown to have considerable effects in preventing the development of cataracts. What they found out was that after exposing eye cells to ultraviolet rays, the cells treated with lutein and zeaxanthin responded better and faster than those treated with vitamin E, a compound known for its regenerative qualities. So if you want to keep your eyesight in good shape, be sure to include some spinach, broccoli and kale into your diet today!
LASIK, or “laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis,” is the most common procedure used today to treat the following ailments: nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. The LASIK Procedure reshapes the cornea to allow light entering the eye to be properly focused, giving you better vision (this is similar to other refractory surgeries). The overall LASIK procedure takes no more than 15 minutes, and in most cases is absolutely painless. Surgery results (proper vision without the help of glasses or contacts) can be seen within 24 hours of your procedure.Imagine waking up in the morning and not needing your glasses or contacts at all. Wouldn’t that be nice? Not only would it be extremely convenient, but today it’s entirely possible thanks to LASIK.
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Before you have cataract surgery, you should tell your doctor what medications you are currently taking, as some medications might lead to problems during surgery. For example, alpha-blockers and blood thinners can lead to complications when undergoing surgery.
The surgery method known as phacoemulsification is the preferred method over others because:
Surgery results are pretty identical for both procedures, but healing time is faster with phacoemulsification.
This should go without saying, but it’ll be said anyway: the more experience your surgeon has, the less likely you are to have problems with your surgery. With a combined field experience of over 25 years, I think anyone would be in good hands at GSG.
Regardless of what kind of surgery you have done, you’re going to need reading glasses afterwards. There is an option with the intraocular lens so that you have one for seeing far away and one for seeing things up close. Talk to your doctor about the pros and cons about having this combination of lenses.
Cataracts in children are best to be diagnosed and treated as quickly as possible. The biggest period of development of the eyes is from birth to 3 months. The faster the cataract is found and removed, the better chances of that person having better vision later in life.
MYTH 5: Cataracts can “grow back”.
FACT: NO. Cataracts are not a growth; they develop as the lens’s cells die and accumulate. It is possible, however, to develop a secondary, completely different cataract in the eye. Vision can be compromised when the membrane that holds the new lens implant gets cloudy, but this can be easily treated with laser surgery- a painless, 15-minute procedure that will have you seeing clearly again in no time.
Be sure to visit the rest of our site, or give us a call for more information on cataracts and cataract surgery.
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From the Blog:
The Quest to Create a Bionic Eye Gets Clearer
Restoring sight to the blind has proved particularly challenging for scientists, but a new technology combining an eye implant and video-camera-enabled glasses may soon be available in the U.S. Researchers have been pursuing the development of such a bionic eye for decades, in some cases spending hundreds of millions of dollars…[Read more].
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