We report the case of a 46-year-old female patient who was referred to our clinic (Orasis Eye Clinic, Reinach, Switzerland) seeking improvement of her distance and near visual acuity. Radial keratotomy (RK) was performed at a younger age on both eyes to correct -5 D myopia. The patient underwent a bilateral same-session multifocal corneal excimer femtosecond laser (Supracor) keratomileusis corr...

PURPOSE To develop a nomogram for femtosecond laser astigmatic keratotomy (AK) to treat post-keratoplasty astigmatism. SETTING Three academic medical centers. DESIGN Retrospective interventional case series. METHODS A review of post-keratoplasty femtosecond laser AK was performed. Uncorrected (UDVA) and corrected (CDVA) distance visual acuities, manifest refraction, and keratometry were r...

BACKGROUND To report a case of spontaneous corneal melting in pregnancy. We reviewed the literature on corneal melting and the effect of pregnancy on cornea and collagen containing tissues. CASE PRESENTATION A 29-year-old woman who underwent radial keratotomy in both eyes followed by trabeculectomy in her left eye developed corneal melting in the same eye, in her seventh month of pregnancy. D...

A 33-year-old woman with irregular astigmatism 6 years after radial keratotomy (RK) for keratoconus was treated with implantation of a single intrastromal corneal ring segment (Keraring) using the femtosecond laser. The segment (0.150 mm thick with a 160-degree arc) was inserted in the steepest area (inferior) with no intraoperative or postoperative complications. Six months postoperatively, th...

PURPOSE To evaluate the development of regression or progression following radial keratotomy (RK) performed at high altitude (1,720 meters) at long-term follow-up (3 years). METHODS Thirty-nine eyes of 21 myopia patients (between -3.25 D and -11.00 D) whose ages were 19-32 years were included in the study. The RK procedures were performed in standard Russian style. RESULTS The average spher...

PURPOSE Zernike polynomials have been successfully used for approximately 70 years in many different fields of optics. Nevertheless, there are some recent discussions regarding the precision and accuracy of these polynomials when applied to surfaces such as the human cornea. The main objective of this work was to investigate the absolute accuracy of Zernike polynomials of different orders when ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of depth of incision on the final outcome of radial keratotomy for correction of myopia. METHODS Sixty-five eyes with preoperative uncorrected myopia between 2.5-6.0D in subjects with a mean age of 29.2 (+/-7) years underwent radial keratotomy between Sept 1999-July 2002 in department of Ophthalmology, Military Hospital, Rawalpindi. Based on their preoperative d...

The effects of accommodation demand and deprivation on the development of ocular optics was investigated in four groups of kittens (total n = 29). Group 1 consisted of five normal kittens; group 2 (nine kittens) had monocular radial keratotomy to induce relative hypermetropia and more accommodation demand as well as to impart interocular refractive differences (anisometropia); group 3 (eight ki...