Refractive Surgery News

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.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS meeting, Deepinder K. Dhaliwal, MD, LAc, discusses her experience co-moderating the first independent International Society of Refractive Surgery meeting.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Dan Z. Reinstein, MD, speaks about hyperopic SMILE with the VisuMax 800 excimer laser from Carl Zeiss Meditec.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Robert E. Ang, MD, presents 1-year study results of Supracor LASIK for presbyopia with two ablation profiles.