ESCRS Winter Meeting

ISTANBUL, Turkey — An IOL technology is gaining popularity and expanding its scope through an increasing variety of products, a speaker said here.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Minimizing postoperative dry eye is a major goal of refractive surgeons, with careful preoperative evaluation of the ocular surface playing a crucial role in preventing the condition, a physician said here.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — A femtosecond laser-assisted variation of the classic big-bubble technique in deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty had a high degree of reproducibility and easier management in pediatric patients, according to a surgeon here.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — A microkeratome used to create LASIK flaps in a consecutive series of 1,000 eyes of 500 patients showed safety, accuracy and high predictability, according to a poster presented at the winter meeting of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — The IntraCor intrastromal presbyopia treatment with the Technolas Perfect Vision femtosecond laser shows good, stable results at 2 years, according to a surgeon.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — When performing cataract surgery in diabetic patients, minimization of inflammatory reactions and prevention of posterior capsule opacification are more crucial than ever.

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery may reduce the risk of postoperative cystoid macular edema over standard ultrasound phacoemulsification, according to a study.

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Implantation of a toric implantable Collamer lens after intracorneal ring implantation followed by corneal collagen cross-linking is an effective treatment sequence in patients with keratoconus, according to a speaker here.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — A study in Sudan found that cataract surgery there is on the rise, accounting for 2,025 operations performed in 2009 out of 72,024 diagnosed cataract cases.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Aspheric lenses are effective in reducing spherical aberration, but this effect was clinically irrelevant in the majority of cataract patients due to the age-related small pupil size, according to a study carried out at St. Thomas' Hospital, U.K.