In this special ESCRS Winter Refractive Surgery Meeting issue, EuroTimes provides a preview of the Rome Congress together with articles covering a broad range of topics of interest to cataract and refractive surgeons.

FROM THE EDITORS:
By Paul Rosen FRCS FRCOphth

LETTER TO THE EDITORS
Prof A Dominguez

ESCRS Winter Refractive Surgery Meeting
preview

New solid-state lasers show potential advantages over
excimer lasers

ESCRS Symposium report -
Using wavefront technology to maintain the physiology of the cornea.

Surgical gloves implicated in
DLK outbreak

Less haze, quicker recovery
with Epi-LASIK Technique

ESCRS Clinical research Symposium report-
avoiding night vision disturbances after refractive surgery

New techniques and technology
enhance benefits of MICS

Less induced spherical aberration
with wavefrontoptimised treatments

Bimanual MICs safe and efficacious for RLE with
accommodating IOL

Good centration essential
for good functional vision with wavefront -modified IOLs

Tension rings effects on PCO
formation are still unclear

New VHF digital ultrasound
scanner provides surgeons with enhanced view of intraocular anatomy

Micropulse phaco can
achieve superior results in dense cataracts

New IOL useful in eyes
without zonular support

Electrodes bring light to the
eyes of blind patients with artificial retina prototype

Measuring patients’ colour perception
helpful in assessing diabetic retinopathy

New indications for photodynamic therapy
identified