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February 05, 2025
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Right nomograms, instruments needed for ICL sizing

KOLOA, Hawaii — Measuring an eye for an ICL requires the right technology and formulas, according to a speaker at Hawaiian Eye 2025.

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January 02, 2024
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What is your go-to diagnostic tool before cataract surgery?

There are certain things that are a must for me in the preop cataract setting from a diagnostic standpoint.

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October 18, 2021
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Treat ocular surface, undercorrect when biometry data vary before astigmatism correction

NEW YORK — When a patient presents with varying preoperative biometry data for the astigmatism axis, surgeons should examine the ocular surface and go into the procedure with adequate expectations, according to one speaker here.

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February 13, 2020
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Correlate A-scan, biometry measurements to improve accuracy in IOL calculations

While there are multiple methods and formulas for calculating the IOL power for cataract surgery, none of them will give an accurate result if the biometry is imprecise. As the saying goes, “Garbage in, garbage out.” One of the most common situations in which we have inaccurate measurements is when an opaque cataract prevents our optical coherence biometry from measuring the axial length.