Refractive Surgery News

NEW YORK — During her presentation at OSN New York 2019, Lisa Nijm, MD, JD, discusses the importance of obtaining informed consent from all premium IOL patients and being methodical, considerate and complete in all communication leading up to surgery.

Early in 2019, the FDA issued a notice of recall for all lots of the Raindrop near vision inlay. The alert was the most-read refractive-based story on Healio.com/OSN this past year.

NEW YORK — John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, discusses premium lens options for astigmatism management during his presentation at OSN New York 2019. Increasing premium lens adoption among patients not only increases patient satisfaction but also offsets the impact of increased costs and decreased reimbursements, according to Hovanesian.

NEW YORK — In her presentation at OSN New York 2019, Cynthia A. Matossian, MD, FACS, discusses her study evaluating the use of LipiFlow thermal pulsation therapy (Johnson & Johnson Vision) prior to cataract surgery in patients with meibomian gland disease. Treatment affected the axis and magnitude of astigmatism, which often precipitated a change in the surgical treatment plan, she said.

NEW YORK — Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD, of Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island, discusses the advantages of using intrastromal limbal relaxing incisions in the approach to astigmatism management during his presentation at OSN New York 2019.

NEW YORK — In his presentation at OSN New York 2019, Uday Devgan, MD, explains the pros and cons of treating astigmatism with paired full-thickness phaco incisions.

NEW YORK —In her presentation at OSN New York 2019, Elizabeth Yeu, MD, reviews the growing field of tools for calculating and managing astigmatism.

The latest issue of the Video Journal of Cataract, Refractive and Glaucoma Surgery, whose mission is to advance the knowledge and surgical training of eye surgeons through video-based education, is now online.

The FDA has approved a human clinical study of the EVO/EVO+ Visian ICL for myopia and the EVO/EVO+ Visian toric ICL for myopia with astigmatism, STAAR Surgical announced in a press release.

The enVista toric MX60ET hydrophobic acrylic IOL with StableFlex technology has been introduced by Bausch + Lomb, according to a press release.