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Article: Researchers from Moorfields Eye Hospital publish findings in refractive surgery.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- August 26, 2009
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In this recently published article, scientists in London, the United Kingdom conducted a study "To examine strategies for adjusting the ablation sphere in myopic wavefront laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) with reference to preoperative manifest refraction. Refractive Surgery Service, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom."
"The variance in the 3-month postoperative manifest refraction spherical equivalent (MRSE) results in 295 consecutive cases of myopic wavefront LASIK treated with a nonsystematic, intuitive approach to pretreatment adjustment of the ablation sphere was compared with the variance in modeled results obtained by back-calculation ...