Dropless cataract surgery: modernizing perioperative medical therapy to improve outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Purpose Of Review: Advances in pharmacology offer freedom from topical medical therapy without compromise of anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial coverage in the perioperative period. In this review, we describe the basis for dropless cataract surgery with the goal of improving outcomes and the patient experience.

Recent Findings: Phacoemulsification outcomes depend largely on surgeon skill but also on adherence to a complex multidrug regimen of perioperative anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial therapy to prevent sight-threatening complications such as cystoid macular edema or endophthalmitis.

Transverse vs torsional ultrasound: prospective randomized contralaterally controlled study comparing two phacoemulsification-system handpieces.

Purpose: To compare surgical efficiency and multiple early clinical outcome variables in eyes undergoing phacoemulsification using either transversal or torsional ultrasound systems.

Setting: Assil Eye Institute, Beverly Hills, CA, USA.

Design: Prospective, randomized, clinician-masked, contralaterally controlled single-center evaluation.

Photopic pupillometry-guided laser in situ keratomileusis for hyperopic presbyopia.

Purpose: To evaluate a method of surgically treating presbyopia in hyperopic patients having laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) by selecting excimer ablation optical zone diameters based on the photopic pupil.

Setting: Private practice, Beverly Hills, California, USA.

Methods: This prospective analysis comprised 46 patients having hyperopic LASIK for presbyopia.

Three-year results of Artisan/Verisyse phakic intraocular lens implantation. Results of the United States Food And Drug Administration clinical trial.

Objective: To assess the safety and efficacy of the Artisan/Verisyse phakic intraocular lens (IOL) for the correction of high myopia.

Design: Prospective, open-label, noncomparative, multicenter clinical trial.

Participants: A total of 684 adults with axial myopia from -4.

Verisyse intraocular lens implantation in a child with anisometropic amblyopia: four-year follow-up.

A Verisyse phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) (AMO) was implanted in the eye of a 3-year-old child with unilateral high myopia and suspected dense amblyopia. Four years postoperatively, the Snellen visual acuity was 20/30 with a refraction of -1.00 -1.

Temporal hinge laser in situ keratomileusis: maximizing treatable stromal bed area.

Purpose: To compare the treatable stromal bed area created by a temporal versus superior hinge laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) flap.

Setting: Assil Sinskey Eye Institute, Santa Monica, California, USA.

Methods: A randomized retrospective case review was performed of 2 subgroups (each with 12 eyes) of a cohort having LASIK for the correction of hyperopic astigmatism between August 2001 and March 2002.