Refractive Surgery News

In part two of Healio’s Lost Art of Refraction miniseries, Cynthia Matossian, MD, FACS, and Arun C. Gulani, MD, discuss the role of refraction in a busy ophthalmology practice.

The International Society of Refractive Surgery, after 20 years as part of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, has reorganized as a separate and independent entity.

FRANKFURT, Germany — The ICL allows for reliable, predictable correction of low to high degrees of myopia with similar safety and visual performance across all groups, according to a study on a large cohort.

TAMPA, Fla. — In this Healio Video Perspective from Telling It Like It Is, Elizabeth Yeu, MD, FACS, discusses why she recommends the EVO ICL to treat patients with low to moderate myopia.

FRANKFURT, Germany — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS winter meeting, Pavel Stodulka, MD, PhD, speaks about his long-term data with the presbyopic phakic IPCL from Eyeol UK.

In part one of Healio’s Lost Art of Refraction miniseries, Cynthia Matossian, MD, FACS, and Steven G. Safran, MD, discuss the importance of performing refraction.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2024, Audrey R. Talley Rostov, MD, shares how to get good results with the EVO ICL from STAAR Surgical.

WAILEA, Hawaii — Steven C. Schallhorn, MD, was honored with the Philip M. Corboy, MD, Memorial Award and Lecture for Distinguished Service to Ophthalmology here at Hawaiian Eye 2024.

The last place anyone wants to have an ophthalmic emergency is standing on top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, at 19,341 feet above sea level and days from any medical care.

The FDA approved the VisuMax 800 femtosecond laser with SMILE pro software for the treatment of myopia with or without astigmatism, according to a press release from Carl Zeiss Meditec.