Lasik Combined With Other Procedures Jonathan D. Primack Dimitri T. Azar The excimer laser revolutionized the field of refractive surgery and greatly facilitated its acceptance into mainstream ophthalmology. As techniques…
Lasik Outcomes in Astigmatism Damien Gatinel Thanh Hoang-Xuan BACKGROUND Compound astigmatism is the most common refractive error. Myopia is often associated with some degree of astigmatism in the general population….
Lasik Outcomes in Myopia and Hyperopia Daniel Epstein Laser in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK) took the ophthalmic world by storm in the second half of the 1990s and has since become by…
Lasik Techniques and Qutcomes Ioannis G. Pallikaris George D. Kymionis One of the fields that could characterize the last decade in ophthalmology is the evolution and advancement of refractive surgery….
Lasik Instrumentation: Microkeratomes, Excimer Lasers, and Wavefront Analyzers Raymond S. Loh David R. Hardten At the onset of the 21st century, the basic requirements of any refractive surgery remain unchanged…
Excimer Laser Surface Ablation: Photorefractive Keratectomy (Prk) and Laser Subepithelial Keratomileusis (Lasek) Scott Barnes Dimitri T. Azar The field of refractive surgery has been greatly impacted by the development of…
Intrastromal Corneal Implants Jonathan H. Talamo Mahnaz Nouri Azhar N. Rana HISTORY AND BACKGROUND Additive keratorefractive surgery has undergone many changes since the early efforts of Barraquer (1), Stone and…
Keratomileusis and Automated Lamellar Keratoplasty Stephen U. Stechschulte John F. Doane The concept of lamellar refractive corneal surgery, or keratomileusis, originated with J. I. Barraquer (1,2) in 1949. Using a…
Epikeratoplasty Michael D. Wagoner Ali A. Al-Rajhi Epikeratoplasty was originally introduced by Dr. Herbert Kaufman (1) at the Jackson Memorial Lecture at the American Academy of Ophthalmology as an extension…
Incisional Surgery for Natural and Surgically-Induced Astigmatism Roger F. Steinert Regular and irregular astigmatism cause impairment of uncorrected visual acuity and, in moderate to large amounts, loss of best corrected…
