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May 2002
A personal look back at microkeratom
technology
Roles
and designs of microkeratomes continue to evolve as laser ablation
and corneal lamellar procedures improve. The very limited role of
microkeratomes for almost two decades was followed by widespread
use over the last half decade as their predictability and safety
increased - now their roles are changing again.
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April
2002
Critical Evaluation of Existing Technologies will benefit future
quality of vision
The
6th ESCRS Winter
Refractive Meeting was held in Barcelona in conjunction with the
4th International Symposium on Corneal Surgery and Pathology. As
more and more ophthalmologists perform refractive surgery, attendance
has been increasing every year at the Winter Meeting.
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March
2002
Improving Functional Vision after Refractive and Cataract
Lens Removal
The Expanding Role of Refractive Lensectomy for Correction of Ametropia
and Presbyopia.
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January
2002
Current
techniques and technology allow us to perform increasingly atraumatic
cataract surgery and to prevent more effectively functional visual
impairment from PCO, astigmatism and other causes related to crystalline
lens removal. With these improvements, our goals for visual outcomes
of our patients are increasing steadily.
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October
2001
Laser Thermal Keratoplasty - are available techniques now obsolete?
Will indications remain very limited for all thermal keratoplasty
procedures?
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September
2001
Lenticular Refractive Surgery.... Optimising Optical Quality
and Functional Vision. Recent
innovations that provide increasing options in intraocular lens
materials and designs are allowing surgeons to more successfully
balance and optimise optical quality and functional vision after
cataract removal and refractive lensectomies.
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July
2001
Presbyopia: Improving Options in Prosthetic Devices and Surgical
Techniques but Complete Understanding and Optimal Surgical Procedure
Still Elusive
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May
2001
LASIK Complications: decreasing but still evolving
LASIK evolved as another variation of laser corneal sculpting to
decrease
complications of early PRK. Fortunately the rate of complications
after
LASIK has decreased very significantly in the last few years.
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April
2001
Contact
lenses and penetrating keratoplasty have been the principal therapeutic
modalities for improving visual acuity in keratoconus patients for
over thirty years. The current status of these treatments, new concepts
regarding pathogenesis and biochemical alterations in keratoconic
corneas, and alternate controversial therapies were discussed during
the keratoconus symposium at the ESCRS Winter Refractive Meeting
in Cannes.
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March 2001
Winter Consensus. There was consensus at the ESCRS Winter Refractive
meeting in Cannes about the tremendous excitement surrounding new
technologies that will increase exponentially our understanding
of visual function and ocular pathology and that offer great potential
for improving refractive surgical results.
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