A 30-year-old man who had laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) for myopia 1 year earlier developed a corneal perforation in the left eye from a boa constrictor. The patient presented to the emergency room, and a small corneal perforation just outside the visual axis was diagnosed within the LASIK flap. Cyanoacrylate adhesive was used to close the corneal perforation. The patient went on to full...

TEN years after some of the first photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgeries, patients are showing stable corneas and visual results, a Spanish study confirms. Jorge L Alio MD, PhD,Vissum Instituto Oftalmologico de Alicante,Alicante, Spain, reviewed the long-term results of 200 eyes that had undergone laser refractive surgery. The eyes were tre...

In this work we try to understand the real effect of increase in aberrations after Femto-LASIK surgery on patient’s final visual quality, specifically when acuity measurement is considered. A clinical study with 37 eyes 20 patients that underwent myopic and different personalized eye model simulations were carried out. study, correlations between pre- postoperative parameters analysed. Eye (bas...

PURPOSE To report a patient with severe post-laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) epithelial ingrowth and keratolysis treated with flap amputation and phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) with adjuvant intraoperative mitomycin C (MMC). METHODS Case report. RESULTS A 55-year-old woman was referred to our department due to severe post-LASIK epithelial ingrowth with corneal melting 2 years after...

PURPOSE: To better define the effect of laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) on myopic eyes and the risk and incidence of retinal complications after surgery.METHODS: In a prospective study, 200 eyes of 100 patients, 49 male and 51 female, with a mean age of 29.7 years, had a complete posterior pole examination before and at 1 week, 1, 3 and 12 months after bilateral simultaneous LASIK for the ...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of femtosecond laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (FS-LASIK) and small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) on higher-order aberrations in patients. 56 cases (112 eyes) undergoing refractive surgery in our hospital were selected in this study, all patients were randomly divided into femtosecond laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis group (LASIK gr...

PURPOSE To analyze the effect of bilateral laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) on the accommodative convergence per unit of accommodation (AC/A) ratio in otherwise normal orthotropic myopic patients. SETTING Cornea and refractive services of a tertiary-care ophthalmic center. METHODS This prospective clinical trial consisted of 61 myopic patients who had bilateral LASIK. Those with manifes...

Purpose: To search evidence and determine whether PRK (Photo Refractive Keratectomy) or LASIK (Laser in Situ Keratomileusis) produce a better outcome of laser vision correction for patients with atypical topography of cornea. Setting: Electronic search of laser vision correction related studies on Cochrane Library, Medline and PubMed. Method: The search was conducted over Cochrane Library, Emba...