Refractive Surgery News

NEW YORK ― At OSN New York 2017, Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, DNB, discusses her Waring Medal presentation on her innovative surgical technique she dubbed Presbyopic Allogenic Refractive Lenticule, or PEARL, in which she implants the lenticule obtained from the SMILE procedure in the patient’s nondominant eye to correct presbyopia.

LISBON, Portugal – At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Jorge L. Alió, MD, PhD, speaks about the many options currently available for the correction of presbyopia and about his personal decision tree to select what is best for individual patients.

For our blog’s first real entry, we’d like to talk about the most boring, but perhaps most basic, element of cataract surgery outcomes: biometrics and the postoperative refraction.

LISBON, Portugal — The perceived brightness with a small aperture is 30% to 60% greater than should be theoretically expected, according to a poster study presented here.

LISBON, Portugal — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Francis Price Jr., MD, talks about intraoperative OCT in anterior segment surgery, focusing on the benefits it offers in Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty, anterior lamellar surgery, ICL implantation and corneal scar removal.

LISBON, Portugal — At the EuCornea meeting, George D. Kymionis, MD, speaks about combining corneal cross-linking with refractive procedures to improve visual results in patients with keratoconus. He also expresses his opinion on the reverse procedure of performing CXL in LASIK patients.

LISBON, Portugal ― At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting here, George Stamatelatos, BScOptom, discusses how the use of vector planning may reduce residual astigmatism in refractive surgery.

LISBON, Portugal — PRK enhancement after small incision lenticule extraction yields good results, according to a study presented here.

LISBON, Portugal — LASIK enhancement after small incision lenticule extraction can be a safe and effective procedure, but visualizing the original interface is crucial to avoid complications, according to one speaker.

LISBON, Portugal — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting here, H. Burkhard Dick, MD, PhD discusses the good visual acuity results achieved with the IC-8 small aperture IOL from AcuFocus for presbyopia correction.