In 2008, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) surveyed its 9121 United States and international members to evaluate the changing trends and incidence, culture results, treatment, and visual outcomes of infectious keratitis following keratorefractive procedures worldwide. This paper presents and analyzes the results with comparisons to the data in surveys conducted in ...

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology 2008, 19:357–362 Purpose of review Corneal refractive procedures have become increasingly popular over the past decade allowing patients to have excellent uncorrected visual acuity and spectacle independence. As these individuals mature, many will eventually undergo cataract surgery. With the advances in modern cataract surgery and lens implant technology, parti...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To report the recently published literature on ocular surface changes after refractive surgery, as well as the outcomes of treatment modalities on postrefractive surgery dry eye. RECENT FINDINGS Cyclosporine, the first US Food and Drug Administration approved agent to treat the underlying pathological mechanism of chronic dry eye, has demonstrated promising results in dry ey...

BACKGROUND The angle kappa is important in proper centration of corneal ablation in keratorefractive surgery. Orbscan II device is widely used preoperatively in photoablation surgeries and can be used to measure the angle kappa. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the mean angle kappa and its intercepts in healthy young Iranian adults. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study...

INTRODUCTION Refractive surgery is considered a safe and effective method for correction of refractive errors in adults. OBJECTIVE To report an unusual case of a young child with partially accommodative esotropia presenting with deterioration of vision and worsening of esotropia following refractive surgery. CASE REPORT Unanticipated and progressive irregular corneal astigmatism along with ...

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,...

purpose: to determine corneal power for intraocular lens (iol) power calculation in eyes with previous keratorefractive surgery. methods: in 13 eyes of 9 patients with previous keratorefractive surgery undergoing phacoemulcification, iol power was calculated using the clinical history method (chm) in one case, manual keratometry (mkr) in 2, simk in 3, and flattest k (topographically derived) in...

with the increasing number of keratorefractive surgical procedures in the past years, an increasing number of cataract operations in eyes with previous keratorefractive surgery is anticipated. although cataract extraction seems to be feasible without major technical obstacles, intraocular lens (iol) power calculation remains problematic. insertion of measured k-readings after myopic photorefrac...