Refractive Surgery for Myopia

Hearing loss and eye refractive disorders in patients admitted to Vali-e- Asr Hospital in Birjand, Iran, 2015

Introduction: There is insufficient information about the correlation between hearing and visual impairments. Its importance arises when trainers should care about medical issues of their clients. Refractive errors of the eye are one of the main causes of visual loss in the society. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between refractive errors in the eye (by the type of r...

Survival analysis of re-treatment after laser refractive corneal surgery in patients with myopia.

Refractive surgery and strabismus.

This review discusses the potential for strabismic complications after refractive surgery for hyperopia, myopia, anisomyopia, astigmatism and monovision, and how to avoid these complications. Guidelines are given for assessing patients with strabismus seeking refractive surgery. Screening tests are suggested that lead to stratification of refractive surgery patients into different risk groups e...

Changes in Quality of Life after LASIK for Myopia Short running head: Quality of life changes after LASIK

Purpose To measure quality of life (QoL) outcome of pre-presbyopic myopic subjects undergoing LASIK refractive surgery using the Quality of Life Impact of Refractive Correction (QIRC) questionnaire. Additionally, we compared the QoL of pre-surgery subjects to a sample of spectacle and contact lens wearers not considering refractive surgery. Setting Patients were recruited from two refractive su...

Age-related refractive shifts in simple myopia.

BACKGROUND An understanding of physiologic age-related shifts in myopic refractive errors is important to the refractive surgeon for the interpretation of long-term results, surgical planning, and patient counseling. This study characterizes the refractive stability of adult simple myopia with a retrospective study of 413 eyes. METHODS Approximately 74,000 patient records were analyzed to ide...

Excimer laser corneal surgery: new strategies and old enemies.

Although refractive errors are extremely common, their pathogenesis remains undetermined; both genetic and nongenetic factors appear to influence an individual's risk for myopia and the severity of the myopia. The pursuit of good visual acuity without corrective spectacles or contact lenses has spawned a large number of surgical procedures designed to correct myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism,...