-Jan 24, 20221 minRefractive Surgery Week - ICRS!Final post of Refractive Surgery Week! 7. Intracorneal Ring Segments (ICRS). -Incomplete rings made up of PMMA to flatten the central...
-Jan 24, 20221 minRefractive Surgery Week - Phakic IOL.6. Phakic IOL! This is an Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) - The posterior surface of the lens is concave providing a space between...
-Jan 24, 20221 minRefractive Surgery Week - OBL!5. Opaque Bubble Layer! -It is a femtosecond laser flap complication! -Gas bubbles accumulate in the stroma of the cornea during flap...
-Jan 24, 20221 minRefractive Surgery Week - Sands of Sahara - DLK.4. Diffuse Lamellar Keratitis/ Sands of Sahara Syndrome! -Accumulation of fine granular appearing infiltrates giving a grainy corneal...
-Jan 24, 20221 minRefractive Surgery Week - Flap Striae in LASIK.3. Flap Striae post LASIK! • Small wrinkles or folds in the cornea which is common post LASIK surgery. • Usually asymptomatic but can...
-Jan 24, 20221 minRefractive Surgery Week - Post PRK Haze.2. Post PRK Haze! How to combat it? MITOMYCIN C is applied on the corneal surface after removal of epithelium and application of excimer...
-Jan 24, 20221 minRefractive Surgery Week - Radial Keratotomy.1. Scars of Radial Keratotomy. It is an incisional refractive surgery done for myopia. Deep, radial corneal stromal incisions are made of...
-Mar 9, 20201 minThe old way of correcting myopia! Radial Keratotomy Radial Keratotomy is a refractive surgery procedure to correct myopia Developed in 1974 by Svyatoslav Fydorov...