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First femtosecond cataract surgeries performed on US patients
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif. — The first patients in the United States have undergone cataract surgery using a femtosecond laser to cut the flap, according to LenSx Lasers.
All capsulotomies in the surgeries were perfectly centered and achieved diametric accuracy of ±0.25 mm, according to a press release from LenSx. In all of the surgeries, which were performed by Stephen G. Slade, MD, of Houston, wounds were self-sealing and patients were implanted with a premium IOL, the release said.
"I have been involved in many new technology introductions, and I know from these past experiences that LenSx, laser refractive cataract surgery, will be widely accepted by surgeons and demanded by patients in the very near future," Dr. Slade, who is an OSN Refractive Surgery Board Member, said in the release.
LenSx received regulatory clearance for use of a femtosecond laser for creating an anterior capsulotomy in August 2009 and for use in cutting a corneal incision during cataract surgery in December 2009. More than 500 cataract surgeries using a femtosecond laser have been performed in Europe by Zoltan Nagy, MD, of Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, according to the release.
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