Refractive Surgery News

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium, Eva Kim, MD, discusses her experience implanting the EVO Visian ICL from STAAR Surgical.

A standardized three-stage LASIK flap replacement protocol demonstrated a low incidence of clinically visible microfolds and no visually significant microfolds, according to a study.

Many of us have noticed that refractive lens exchanges recently are a boom business. They have always been the only refractive solution for some patients, but increasingly sophisticated IOLs are turning more patients into candidates.

The year’s second issue of the Video Journal of Cataract, Refractive, and Glaucoma Surgery, which provides high-quality video-based education for anterior segment surgeons, is now online.

WASHINGTON — The Staar Surgical Evo ICL can correct a wide range of myopia in those with thin or irregular corneas, Marc R. Bloomenstein, OD, FAAO, said in this Healio video at Optometry’s Meeting.

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — In this Healio Video Perspective from Kiawah Eye, Darrell E. White, MD, discusses why he switched to exclusively performing surface-only laser refractive surgery, which does not require making a flap.

SAN DIEGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Mahipal S. Sachdev, MD, overviews the positive results the Elita femtosecond laser demonstrated in the creation of LASIK flaps.

SAN DIEGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@ASCRS, Rajesh K. Rajpal, MD, discusses the Elita femtosecond laser from Johnson & Johnson Vision.

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — In this Healio Video Perspective from Kiawah Eye, William F. Wiley, MD, speaks about changes in the refractive surgery landscape.

Post-LASIK ectasia, one of the most feared complications of LASIK, can be addressed early and efficiently by cross-linking the stromal bed under the LASIK flap.