Purpose To compare mortality risk between cataract surgical patients with corrected and persistent visual impairment. Design Cohort study. Methods A total of 1864 consecutive patients, aged ≥64 years, undergoing phacoemulsification…
Purpose To analyze and classify the indications, clinical presentations, and surgical outcomes of intraocular lens (IOL) exchange performed in a recent 5-year period. Design Retrospective, interventional case series. Methods setting…
Purpose To evaluate the quality of vision and depth of focus induced by controlled amounts of negative spherical aberration in patients implanted bilaterally with light-adjustable intraocular lenses. Design Prospective, nonrandomized…
Purpose To investigate the refractive outcomes of intraocular lens (IOL) power calculation by ray-tracing after myopic excimer laser surgery. Design Prospective, interventional case series. Methods setting : Multicenter study. participants…
Purpose To analyze corneal and total aberrations using custom-developed anterior segment spectral optical coherence tomography (OCT) and laser ray tracing in keratoconic eyes implanted with intracorneal ring segments (ICRS). Design…
Purpose To investigate the incidence and severity of night vision disturbances after implantable collamer lens surgery and to analyze the risk factors. Design Retrospective, noncomparative study. Methods Medical charts from…
Purpose To evaluate topographic and tomographic changes in fellow eyes in unilateral keratoconus (KCN) patients by comparing them with normal eyes. Design Retrospective comparative case series. Methods Fourteen eyes of…
Purpose To compare the visual and refractive outcomes of femtosecond lenticule extraction (FLEx) and small-incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) in eyes with myopia. Design Prospective, randomized, masked clinical trial with intraindividual…
Purpose To evaluate and compare the depth of the corneal stromal demarcation line after corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) using 2 different methods: confocal microscopy and anterior segment optical coherence tomography…
Purpose To identify genetic mutations and study the corneal epithelium in Japanese patients with Meesmann corneal dystrophy. Design Laboratory investigation and prospective observational case series. Methods Slit-lamp biomicroscopy with fluorescein…
