PURPOSE To evaluate the visual performance by high contrast visual acuity, contrast sensitivity and wavefront in myopic patients with or without astigmatism corrected with spectacles and with three different soft contact lenses [Acuvue 2 (Vistacon J&J Vision Care Inc., USA), Biomedics 55 (Ocular Science, USA), and Focus 1-2 week (Ciba Vision Corporation, USA)]. METHODS An interventional prosp...

PURPOSE The primary objective of the study was to explore the statistics of ocular higher-order aberrations in a population of primary and secondary school children. METHODS A sample of 557 children aged 10-15 years were selected from two primary and two secondary schools in Heraklion, Greece. Children were classified by age in three subgroups: group I (10.7±0.5 years), group II (12.4±0.5 yea...

PURPOSE To present a format for reporting outcomes of aberrometer-guided refractive procedures. SETTING SurgiVision Consultants, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, and Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Rockland, Maryland, USA. METHODS Reports of standard refractive and visual outcomes (uncorrected visual acuity, manifest refractive spherical equivalent, best ...

PURPOSE Wavefront optical aberrations induced by refractive corneal surgery correction of myopia are probably the reason for deterioration of visual performance in some eyes after surgery. Customized photoablation of the cornea to correct both the sphero-cylindrical refractive error as well as individual optical aberrations may improve postoperative visual acuity and visual performance. METHO...

PURPOSE To investigate the changes in corneal higher-order aberration (HOA) during amblyopia treatment and the correlation between HOA and astigmatism in hyperopic amblyopia children. METHODS In this retrospective study, a total of 72 eyes from 72 patients ranging in age from 38 to 161 months were included. Patients were divided into two groups based on the degree of astigmatism. Corneal HOA ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to find the strength of the correlation between ORange(®) (intraoperative wavefront aberrometer) objective refraction during pseudophakic cataract surgery (Gen 1) and 1-week objective autorefraction postcataract surgery in order to establish the clinical degree of confidence in the ORange. Gen 1 was used because Gen 2 was not available at the time of the study. Howev...

PURPOSE To compare ocular and internal aberrations after femtosecond laser anterior capsulotomy and continuous curvilinear capsulorrhexis in cataract surgery. METHODS In this prospective study, anterior capsulotomy was performed during cataract surgery with an intraocular femtosecond (FS) laser (Alcon LenSx Inc) in 48 eyes. As a control group, continuous curvilinear capsulorrhexis (CCC) was p...

purpose: to study the distribution of ocular higher-order aberrations (hoas) and mesopic pupil size in individuals screened for refractive surgery. methods: ocular hoas and mesopic pupil size were studied in 2458 eyes of 1240 patients with myopia, simple myopic astigmatism and compound myopic astigmatism and 215 eyes of 110 patients with hyperopia, simple hyperopic astigmatism and compound hype...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the visual, refractive, and aberrometric outcomes as well as the level of patient satisfaction and photic phenomena after myopic laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgery using wavefront-guided (WFG) ablations based on measurements obtained with a high-resolution aberrometer. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study was a prospective analysis includ...

Total ocular higher order aberrations and corneal topography of myopic, emmetropic and hyperopic eyes of 675 adolescents (16.9 ± 0.7 years) were measured after cycloplegia using COAS aberrometer and Medmont videokeratoscope. Corneal higher order aberrations were computed from the corneal topography maps and lenticular (internal) higher order aberrations derived by subtraction of corneal aberrat...