JUNE 2010 CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY 41 I consider customized wavefront-guided laser vision correction a critical component of today’s refractive surgical practice, because it delivers better outcomes than conventional treatments. Since I began performing customized corrections using the iLASIK suite (Abbott Medical Optics Inc., Santa Ana, CA) along with other technological improvement...

To the Editor: I applaud Alió et al1 for providing a comprehensive and meticulous meta-analysis of peer-reviewed articles on pediatric laser refractive surgery, which appeared in the May 2011 issue of the Journal of Refractive Surgery. I appreciate this complex undertaking. The study adds knowledge to our understanding of laser refractive surgery on the treatment of high anisometropic ametropia...

purpose: to determine the efficacy, safety, and stability of these techniques and some factors affecting refractive and visual outcomes in treated patients. methods: 236 lasik-treated eyes (122 patients) and 218 prk-treated eyes (112 patients) with myopia and myopic-astigmatism between -1.25 and -4 diopters (d) underwent refractive surgery over an 11 month period by a single surgeon. patients w...

Since the early 1980s, civil airmen have been allowed to correct refractive error (i.e., myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism) with corrective surgery. Prior Federal Aviation Administration research studies have shown that the number of civil airmen with refractive surgery continues to increase. A study that reviewed refractive surgery use in civil airmen for the years 1994-96, reported that the larg...

Purpose: To provide a summary of the most recent evidence-based data on the paediatric refractive surgery. Methods: A review of the published studies from 1990 to 2015 was undertaken with emphasis on recent articles from 2010 to 2015. Results: Searching Scopus and PubMed, using the keywords of refractive surgery, phakic, paediatric, IOL, children and amblyopia alone or in various combinations y...

PURPOSE The present study aims at investigating and comparing the vision-related quality of life of myopic persons who wear spectacles or contact lenses with those who have undergone refractive surgery. It also compares the vision-related quality of life of these two groups with that of emmetropes. METHOD In this study, the questionnaire of evaluation instrument of refractive error in quality...

Refractive errors are a fairly common eye condition worldwide, and the ophthalmologist should be capable of offering the patient both nonsurgical and surgical solutions to their refractive conditions. Nevertheless, currently, refractive surgery training during residency is poor at best. This paper explores recent evidence to suggest that postsurgical results of patients operated on by residents...

The field of aberrations of the human eye is moving rapidly, being driven by the desire to monitor and optimise vision following refractive surgery. It is important for ophthalmologists and optometrists to have an understanding of the magnitude of various aberrations and how these are likely to be affected by refractive surgery and other corrections. In this paper, I consider methods used to me...

Pentacam Keratometric Values Unreliable for IOL Power Calculation After Refractive Surgery To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Gonen et al,1 which appeared in the August 2012 issue of the Journal of Refractive Surgery, on their study comparing keratometric data from 200 patients evaluated for refractive surgery using four different devices—an automated keratometer (KR 8800 [Topc...

A critical element of peer-reviewed publication is clear communication to the reader and the ophthalmic and medical community. Refractive surgery has the luxury of multiple procedures with multiple outcome parameters that are relevant to clinicians, researchers, and, of course, patients. This diversity introduces complexity for the reader in evaluating and comparing various procedures as they a...