Treating myopia

Efficacy and safety of iris-supported phakic lenses (Verisyse) for treating moderately high myopia.

AIM To evaluate efficacy and safety of iris-supported phakic lenses (Verisyse) for treating moderately high myopia. METHODS This prospective clinical study included 40 eyes from 29 patients, who underwent implantation of Verisyse for correction of myopia from -6.00 to -14.50 diopters (D) in the Eye Clinic ''Svjetlost'', Sarajevo, from January 2011 to January 2014. Uncorrected distance visual ...

One year LASIK experience treating Myopia with the Carl Zeiss Meditec MEL 80 LASER

Over the last 7 years LASIK has become the procedure of choice for the surgical correction of low to moderate myopia. Studies in the literature have shown that LASIK is effective and predictable in obtaining very good to excellent uncorrected visual acuity and that it is safe in terms of minimal loss of visual acuity (1). During the last years the laser technology switched from broad beam ablat...

Myopia.

Myopia and Myopia Control: Options and Outlooks

Though myopia has been studied throughout history, the topic has gained significantly more attention over the past few decades. An internet search displays over 5 million results and over 15,000 articles written on the topic. Yet there is great debate as to the clinical efficacy of current methods in myopia control and our duty as physicians to incorporate a means of intervention into our treat...

Pollution: Treating Environmental Toxins

Maczulak AE. Pollution: Treating Environmental Toxins. New York, NY: Infobase Publishing; 2010. p. x+232. ISBN: 978-1-4381-2633-3