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The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah is routinely recognized for its exceptional care and has been ranked among the best eye centers in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and Ophthalmology Times.
Recent outcomes reflect the Moran Eye Center's dedication to providing exceptional care while fulfilling its teaching role as part of an academic medical center at the University of Utah.
University of Utah Health has led the way as health care systems nationwide pursue process and policy improvements. At the John A. Moran Eye Center, this commitment extends to a broad range of measures to provide the bes...
Education, Health Care, Research
The mission of the Moran Eye Center’s Uveitis Division consists of three parts: provide state-of-the-art care to patients; serve as leaders in the clinical education of uveitis locally, nationally, and internationally; a...
Ocular inflammatory disease, including uveitis, scleritis, and orbital inflammatory disease, can be acute or chronic, infectious, non-infectious, or present as a masquerade syndrome. Therefore, its management is manifold...
Cataract surgery in uveitis patients requires special consideration. Both intraocular inflammation and its first-line treatment (steroids) contribute to cataract progression, and cataracts are a main cause of decreased v...
Clinical updates from the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Uveitis Division, including a new CMV screening protocol, managing patient care amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing clinical trials, and selected research publications...
In resource-poor countries such as Myanmar, which has the second-highest number of people living with HIV in Southeast Asia, the rates of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis and associated vision-threatening complications re...
Health Care, Research, Education
The John A. Moran Eye Center’s Uveitis Division took shape in 2003. Albert T. Vitale, MD, Akbar Shakoor, MD, and Marissa B. Larochelle, MD, comprise the only uveitis division between Colorado and California and are among...
Health Care, Education
Physician referral information and resources for the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah.
A woman in her mid-20s was seen for a new gray spot in the vision of her left eye. Multifocal ERG, Humphrey visual field testing, and fundus autofluorescence were needed to help make a diagnosis.
Electrophysiology and multimodal imaging comes to the rescue of a 67-year-old woman referred to neuro-ophthalmology for visual disturbances that she had noticed for the last five years.
A one-year-old girl was referred to Moran Eye Center's pediatric retina clinic by her pediatric ophthalmologist for evaluation of likely persistent fetal vasculature syndrome, but a combination of imaging procedures help...
Research, Education, Health Care
A 78-year-old man was referred for an ultrasound of his right eye to evaluate a small choroidal nevus. He also mentioned almost total loss of vision in his left eye over the past several days. Remaining open to alternati...
Patient-specific orbital implants are revolutionizing the results we can provide for patients who have experienced significant trauma to the eye sockets. We are utilizing patient-specific implants at the Moran Eye Center...
Retinal specialist Michael P. Teske, MD, has been an early adopter of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). We asked him to share how he’s using OCTA and the benefits this advanced imaging provides for patient...
Health Care, Education, Research
Using the only imaging modality of its type in the U.S. in the past 2 1/2 years, Moran physician-scientists are working to revolutionize how clinicians diagnose and treat diseases.
Since its inception in 1972, the Utah Lions Eye Bank (ULEB) has facilitated the gift of sight worldwide. An extension of the Moran Eye Center, the nonprofit ULEB is dedicated to the mission of sight restoration and prese...
For this edition of Clinical Focus, we asked some of our leading clinicians and researchers to highlight the role of imaging and electrophysiology in the care of patients.
