Refractive Surgery News

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, John F. Doane, MD, FACS, of Discover Vision Centers discusses the benefits that the VisuMax 800 femtosecond laser offers patients, surgeons and staff.

Since its inception in 1989, LASIK has been at the top of the list in our armamentarium of refractive surgeries.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@AAO, Xiao-Yu Song, MD, PhD, of Johnson & Johnson Vision, gives an overview of company innovations for improving vision outcomes in refractive and cataract surgery.

CHICAGO — A number of preoperative and perioperative variables may predict ocular pain following refractive surgery, according to a speaker here.

CHICAGO — Thanks to recent technological improvements, the ICL could take the place at the forefront of vision correction in the near future, according to a speaker here.

Post-refractive ectasia occurs very rarely, in only about one out of every 10,000 cases of refractive surgery, or 0.09% of LASIK procedures, 0.02% of PRK procedures and 0.01% of SMILE procedures, according to Moshirfar and colleagues.

Filling an opioid prescription after ophthalmic surgery was associated with higher rates of hospitalization, overdose, abuse or dependency, and mortality, according to a study published in Ophthalmology.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium, Dagny Zhu, MD, and AnnMarie Hipsley, DPT, PhD, discuss laser scleral microporation for presbyopia.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Pavel Stodulka, MD, PhD, gives an update on hyperopic SMILE.