Incidence and Outcomes of Optical Zone Enlargement and Recentration After Previous Myopic LASIK by Topography-Guided Custom Ablation

Ablation-related complications following refractive surgery such as decentered ablations, small optical zones, or irregular ablations can produce irregular optics and compromise quality of vision.1 Over the past two decades, several excimer laser platforms have developed topography-guided treatments to treat corneal irregularities.2 –17 Published reports to date have found topography-guided treatment in general to be effective, successfully increasing uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) and corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), reducing corneal aberrations, and improving the regularity

Source: Journal of Refractive Surgery - February 12, 2018 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Dan Z. Reinstein, MD, MA(Cantab), FRCSC Source Type: research