Use of brimonidine before LASIK with femtosecond laser-created flaps for the correction of myopia: a contralateral eye study.

Purpose: To evaluate the changes in the incidence of subconjunctival hemorrhage, hyperemia, photophobia, flap displacements, and flap retractions in myopic patients who have undergone LASIK with an IntraLase 15-kHz femtosecond laser (intraLASIK) with or without the application of brimonidine tartrate 0.2% in one eye.

Methods: Two hundred eyes of 100 myopic patients were enrolled in this brimonidine tartrate fellow eye control study.