Refractive Surgery News

DENVER — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ARVO meeting, Daniel H. Chang, MD, discusses his virtual poster on the duration of Vuity (Allergan) in photopic intermediate visual acuity.

WASHINGTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting, Mark C. Lobanoff, MD, discusses a study he conducted on visual acuity results from topography-guided LASIK treatments.

With a total of 200,672 procedures, laser vision correction procedure volume increased by 5.3% in the first quarter of 2022 over the fourth quarter of 2021, according to a report from the Refractive Surgery Council.

Nyxol demonstrated positive results in a pediatric safety trial to reverse pharmacologically induced mydriasis, according to a press release from Ocuphire Pharma.

Increasingly sophisticated diagnostic tools provide new opportunities for better managing astigmatism in patients with cataract but also raise new challenges for surgeons trying to effectively synthesize all the information available to us.

More options are on the way to treat patients with presbyopia, according to a presentation at Real World Ophthalmology.

WASHINGTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@ASCRS, Yari L. Mitchell discusses new technologies for presbyopia correction.

WASHINGTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting, Erik Mertens, MD, discusses his long-term experience implanting the STAAR Surgical EVO Visian ICL to correct myopia.

WASHINGTON — Topography is a valuable tool to detect corneal irregularity and asymmetry, a speaker said during Refractive Day at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.

WASHINGTON — Stable and predictable healing of the epithelium is important for achieving positive refractive surgery outcomes, according to a speaker here.