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Premium Clinical Options for Cataract & Refractive Surgery
May 2009 Supplement:
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A recent study demonstrates that the wavefront-guided LASIK procedure induces significantly less higher-order aberrations, spherical aberration, trefoil, and coma than the wavefront-optimized LASIK procedure. In some cases, wavefront-optimized LASIK induced aberrations. Thus, wavefront-guided ablations provide the best results for the vast majority of patients with the lowest rate of retreatment over conventional LASIK and wavefront-optimized LASIK. Reducing aberrations Studies show that less higher-order aberrations in the eye result in better quality of vision. In the laboratory, Pablo Artal, Ph.D., showed eliminating all higher-order aberrations... Read More |
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Novel Therapeutic Regimens in Treating Ocular Surface Disease and Blepharitis
September 2008 Supplement:
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There are very few papers that even suggest the incidence of blepharitis. The best I’ve found was from Walter Reed: a study showing that 3.1% of recruits between 18 and 22 years old had blepharitis versus 71.1% of the pensioners.1 So obviously this is a condition that increases with age. Lemp’s dry eye study showed that in patients with dry eye disease, virtually 70% of them have an associated blepharitis.2
What about the etiology? Lid margin cultures are positive in virtually 100% of these patients. Pathogenic strains can occur between 35 and 95%.... Read More |
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IMACRS
September 24-27, 2009
Seoul, Korea
Maria Hall & JW Marriott Seoul
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ASCRS Winter Update
Feb 11-15, 2010
Riviera Maya, MX
Fairmont Mayakoba
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