Emergence of Refractive Surgery

Emergence of refractive surgery.

A major story of the last 2 decades of the 20th century has been the emergence of refractive surgery. Initially extremely controversial, with modest predictability and debatable safety and long-term stability, surgical modification of corneal curvature has come to be well accepted by the profession and the public. The number of these procedures that will be performed in 2000 may exceed 1.5 mill...

[Refractive surgery].

FEBRUARY 2004 I CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY I 27 T he FEMTEC femtosecond (ultrashort pulse) ophthalmic laser (20/10 PERFECT VISION Optische Geräte GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany) is a photodisruptive laser. Although performed since the early 1980s, ophthalmic photodisruption has previously been limited to intraocular procedures because of the relatively large amount of energy needed to initi...

Refractive Errors & Refractive Surgery Preferred Practice Pattern®.

Refractive lens surgery.

This article compares methods of axial length measurement for determining intraocular lens power and describes bimanual micro incision phacoemulsification for refractive lens exchange and routine cataract surgery, which offers an enormous advantage of maintaining a more stable intraocular environment during lens removal. This advantage may be especially important in high myopes who are at a gre...

Refractive Surgery Dilemma

A 33-year-old man seeking refractive surgery presented with refractive error of -1.75 -4.0×20° in the right and -0.75 -2.5×170° in his left eye in January 2009; best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) was 20/25+ and 20/20respectively. All ocular examinations were unremarkable and family history for keratoconus was negative. He had previously obtained consultation for refractive surgery i...