GLG News by Corrective Refractive Laser Surgeons (US)

Mutifocal iols are currently used to try to correct distance and near vision.  While patients are often pleased by their improved near vision without glasses, many complain of poor optical quality for distance vision.  Due to great out of pocket costs and poor quality of vision under some...

Data mining is a career choice for a growing number of academic Ophthalmologists and Optometrists. Rightly so, since newer analyses of well conceived population data bases found in the Blue Mountain or the Framingham cohorts continue to provide valuable epidemiologic information.Burgeoning case loads...

The ESCRS (European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery) actively engages Ophthalmologists who are seeking newer and better surgical procedures. This group self selects for innovative, aggressive, busy and entrepreneurial surgeons, as does its American counterpart, the ASCRS.Intralase technology...

The authors show less than stellar results following attempted enhancements of undercorrected or regressed myopic lasik. There are several alternatives to enhancement, including a repeat Lasik at a more shallow depth, lifting the previous Lasik flap and repeating the treatment, or a surface procedure.Surface...

These cases may just be an isolated incident and the report of one or two cases clearly creates attention to the infection and awareness for further cases. In the over 11 years since laser vision correction has been approved in the USA we have not seen much incidence of these infections, so we must...

An argument can be made for LASEK over LASIK for the initial laser treatment in some patients, but the re-lifting of the lasik flap and performing a laser re treatment is the management of choice in almost all cases of post lasik myopic regression. An exception would be if the cornea is too thin or...

Refractive surgery is taken for granted by patients to "get rid of their glasses and contact lenses". They rarely consider the possibility of loss of vision.

    The VEGF Trap from Regeneron is a protein made up off human VEGF receptors fused to human immunoglobulin.  This compound binds VEGF, preventing VEGF from binding to its natural receptors, interrupting the angiogenic cascade.    The phase II study showed promising...

This article describes the perspective of a retinal specialist on the Avastin/Lucentis controversy.  In mid-February the National Institutes of Health announced that it would conduct a head to head trial comparing the effectiveness of Lucentis and Avastin for the treatment of wet  age...

This New York Times article describes many of the vision correction options available to individuals with presbyopia.  Because of the growing population of baby boomers, there is significant public interest in options that allow individuals freedom from reading glasses.  Multifocal contact...