Roger F. Steinert

TL;DR: The pulsed ultraviolet excimer laser has been used to produce tissue ablation with a high degree of precision and with minimal thermal damage to adjacent structures, and threshold fluence for corneal and lens ablation was higher at 248 nm than at 193 nm.

TL;DR: Patients undergoing Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy require ongoing medical observation to detect and treat serious complications of cystoid macular edema, retinal detachment, and new onset of glaucoma, which developed most often many months after Capsulotomy and many months to years after the cataract surgery.

TL;DR: Cataract patients who received multifocal IOLs at time of surgery obtained better uncorrected and distance corrected near VA and reported better overall vision, less limitation in visual function, less spectacle dependency, and more glare or halo than those who received traditional monofocal I OLs.

TL;DR: There is a greater tendency toward undercorrection in LASIK eyes using the specific laser and nomogram in this study, but the scatter in achieved versus attempted correction is similar, suggesting little difference in the accuracy of the two procedures.

TL;DR: Although the perception of halos and glare increased in the multifocal eyes, good visual function remained, and nearly all subjects were satisfied with the results of their surgery, a large study that included a subset of subjects with paired eye compared with those with monofocal lenses concluded that this zonal-progressive multifocal lens provided a high level of uncorrected and corrected distance vision.