Photorefractive keratectomy for the correction of residual refractive error with Intacs intrastromal corneal ring segments in place.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) for residual refractive errors in patients who had previous insertion of intrastromal corneal ring segments (Intacs, Addition Technology, Inc.) for treatment of low myopia.

Setting: Shiley Eye Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.

The effect of cyclosporine A (Restasis) on recovery of visual acuity following LASIK.

Purpose: To compare the recovery of uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) following LASIK in patients treated with topical cyclosporine A 0.05% and patients treated with a standard postoperative regimen.

Methods: In this single-center, open-label, retrospective study, a standard refractive workup was performed in 45 patients (85 eyes) who underwent LASIK and did not have preexisting dry eye.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infectious keratitis following refractive surgery.

Purpose: To elucidate risk factors, clinical course, visual outcomes, and treatment of culture-proven methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infectious keratitis following refractive surgery.

Design: Interventional case series.

Methods: Multicenter chart review of 13 cases of MRSA keratitis following refractive surgery and literature review.

Eye banking error: report of a donor cornea with a soft contact lens left in place.

Purpose: To report the first known case of a donor cornea being examined and shipped with a soft contact lens in place.

Methods: Case Report.

Results: Surgery was cancelled, the two involved eye-banks were notified, and the patient underwent successful keratoplasty 2 days later.

Gaze-induced Desçemet's folds secondary to a primary pterygium.

Purpose: To report a case of gaze-induced Desçemet's folds secondary to a primary pterygium.

Methods: Interventional case report, chart review, and literature review.

Results: Slitlamp examination of a 49-year-old man showed Desçemet's folds in the left eye on extreme right gaze secondary to the restrictive effect of a primary pterygium.

Effect of hinge width on corneal sensation and dry eye after laser in situ keratomileusis.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of hinge width on corneal sensation and dry-eye syndrome after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

Setting: TLC Laser Eye Center, Garden City, New York, USA.

Methods: Fifty-four patients at least 18 years of age had bilateral LASIK with a narrow nasal hinge microkeratome flap in 1 eye and a wider nasal hinge microkeratome flap in the other eye.

The effect of hinge position on corneal sensation and dry eye after LASIK.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of hinge position on corneal sensation and dry eye syndrome after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

Design: Prospective, randomized, self-controlled trial.

Participants: Fifty-two patients >/=18 years of age undergoing bilateral LASIK.