Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Combined photorefractive keratectomy and corneal cross-linking proved safe and effective in treating ...

My colleagues and I published a prospective, interventional case series of 47 eyes of 28 adults with mild to moderate progressive keratoconus who underwent high-resolution wavefront-guided PRK with ...

Medically reviewed by Andrew Greenberg, MD Key Takeaways PRK might be better if you have thin corneas or worry about dry eye.After LASIK, 90% of people have vision between 20/20 and 20/40 without ...

Pre-2000, the clinical management of keratoconus centred on rigid contact lens fitting when spectacle corrected acuity was no longer adequate, and transplantation where contact lens wear failed. Over ...

Vision correction surgery, also called refractive and laser eye surgery, refers to any surgical procedure used to fix vision problems. Recent years have seen huge advances in this field. Refractive ...

As eye surgeons have mastered the ability to correct vision with excimer laser technology, LASIK surgery has surged in popularity. It's no wonder—the procedure is safe and effective for people who are ...

When Cindy Duong decided to pitch her contact lenses and have surgery last summer to correct her nearsightedness, she assumed she'd get LASIK. The procedure, in which a tiny flap is cut across the top ...

"In PRK, the cornea's entire epithelial layer is removed by the surgeon, which exposes the stroma layer right underneath. Then the laser is applied and reshapes the cornea." With LASIK, once the ...

Most people opt for eye correction surgery in summer as the weather is warm and includes vacation as well. The two main laser eye surgery options are LASIK and PRK. Although the results of the two ...