Refractive Surgery News

BELGRADE, Serbia – Extended depth of focus IOLs are gaining wide acceptance. At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, ESCRS president Béatrice Cochener, MD, PhD, speaks about their advantages, best indications and drawbacks. 

BELGRADE, Serbia — Corneal lenticules, which are a waste product of ReLEx small incision lenticule extraction, could be used as an alternative method to treat corneal ulcers, according to one speaker.

BELGRADE, Serbia — Early results with hyperopic ReLEx small incision lenticule extraction, presented at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, seem promising, according to one of the multicenter study investigators.

Patients with keratoconus who underwent manifest refraction vs. autorefraction achieved significantly better corrected distance visual acuity with spectacles.

ReVision Optics, maker of the Raindrop near vision inlay, has folded, according to an announcement on the company’s website.

WAILEA, Hawaii — At Hawaiian Eye 2018, Audrey R. Talley Rostov, MD, discusses her pearls for managing residual refractive error in patients implanted with presbyopia-correcting IOLs.

Combined transepithelial PRK and SmartSurfACE treatment showed the ability to maintain or slightly improve corneal asphericity in patients with low to moderate myopia.

WAILEA, Hawaii — There are surgical and nonsurgical options for the management of patients who were implanted with a presbyopic IOL and have residual refractive error, according to Audrey Talley Rostov, MD.

The Raindrop corneal inlay from ReVision Optics and the AcuFocus Kamra corneal inlay have been implanted in thousands of eyes.

The Dec. 25 issue of Ocular Surgery News focused on rare infections after PRK and LASIK surgeries.