The current state of refractive surgery

The current state of refractive surgery

The leading topic of this particular paper is dedicated to available surgical options for refractive eye disorders treatment including surgery of cornea and intraocular surgery. Corneal Surgery includes laser refractive surgery - LASIK (Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis), FemtoLASIK (Femtosecond laser-assisted LASIK), PRK (Photorefractive keratectomy). This article describes relevant princi...

Current Technology in Refractive Surgery

Reviewing the Current Status of Femtosecond Lasers in Refractive Surgery

F emtosecond laser technology is all around us now, and many refractive surgeons have chosen to invest in one of the four available technologies. This article will review the current status of those machines designed specifically for refractive surgery, which include the Femto LDV (Ziemer Group, Port, Switzerland), IntraLase (Abbott Medical Optics Inc., Santa Ana, California), Technolas 520F (T...

[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...

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...