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ESCRS EUROTIMES
JANUARY EDITION 2006


Clive Peckar, FRCS, FRCOphth
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FROM THE EDITORS:
Clive Peckar, FRCS, FRCOphth

In this issue we welcome in the New Year with a guest editorial from Emanuel Rosen who is Chief International Medical Editor and will lead our new International Editorial Board in 2006. It is a leasure to welcome Emanuel back to the editorial page of EuroTimes, from his usual editori

GUEST EDITORIAL:
Emanuel Rosen, FRCS, FRCOphth

10 years ago in the autumn of 1995 the journals of the ESCRS - The European Journal of Implant and Refractive Surgery joined forces with the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery published by the ASCRS
to publish, from January 1996, the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery as a joint....



For this 10th anniversary issue of EuroTimes we provide a retrospective on cataract and refractive surgery and how they have evolved over the last decade. The issue also includes further extensive coverage from the recent ESCRS Congress in Lisbon and a special report from New Orleans.
Cataract surgery - the past is prologue
Refractive surgery - a 10-year learning curve
Pioneers Past and Present
   
Progress needed to reduce the incidence of suboptimal outcomes in refractive surgery patients
Head-to head comparison indicates Fourier ablation algorithms may be superior to Zernike
FDA study results suggest aspheric profiles on par with wavefront guided ablation
Wavefront optimised LASIK yields good results in moderate to high hyperopes
Ten-year follow-up confocal microscopy study suggests PRK safe in long term

Comparative study suggests LASIK may achieve better results with thinner flaps
   
New accommodating IOL reduces need for reading glasses, though results vary between patients
Survey shows dislocation and de-centration the leading causes of IOL explantation
Topical anaesthesia sufficient for routine cataract procedures
   
Helmholtz theory of accommodation and presbyopia challenged by “catenary” theory proponents
Combining different imaging modalities improves accuracy of diagnosis in macular disorders
New imaging techniques provide insight into the physiology of accommodation
New biomaterials described and assessed at ESCRS clinical symposium