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PREFERRED PRACTICE
Year : 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 12  |  Page : 2867-2879

Customized laser vision correction for irregular cornea post-refractive surgery


1 Department of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2 Department of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
3 Consultant Refractive, Cornea and Cataract, Rajas Eye Hospital and Retina Research Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Dr. Pooja Khamar
Consultant, Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Narayana Nethralaya, 121/c, West of Chord Road, Rajajinagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka
India
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Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2793_20

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Ablation-related complications following the refractive procedures are a major challenge for a refractive surgeon, considering the elective nature of the procedure. The use of topography-guided customized ablation has revolutionized the management of irregular corneas postrefractive surgery. This preferred practice highlights various hurdles encountered while managing cases of decentered ablation, small ablation zones, and planning a cataract surgery in patients with irregular corneas. It will give insight to the refractive surgeon on the planning of corneal regularization on various modern-day refractive platforms available, such as the WaveLight® EX-500 (Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Fort Worth, TX, USA), Schwind Amaris 1050 (Peramis; SCHWIND eye-tech-solutions, Kleinostheim, Germany), and Technolas Teneo 317 model 2 excimer laser (Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY, USA). The algorithmic approach outlined will enable the refractive surgeon to choose between the wavefront optomized and the topography-guided ablations.


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