Nanolaser in cataract surgery and its impact on corneal endotelium.

Purpose: To compare safety and efficacy of new nanolaser photofragmentation technique with standard ultrasound phacoemulsification cataract surgery technique. Metods: A group of 20 patients - 40 eyes who underwent bilateral cataract surgery, one eye with ultrasound phacoemulsification (group I), n = 20 fellow eye with nanosecond laser framentation (group II ). Lens Opacities Classification System III was used to classify cataract stage.

[Epi-Lasek--our experience].

Unlabelled: The aim of this study is to find advantages of alcohol assisted epithelial flap creation before surface excimer--laser refractive ablation.

Methods: One hundred eyes undergoing Epi-Lasek with 20% alcohol in the beginning of procedure. Mean preoperative spherical equivalent was - 3.

[EPI-LASIK--2 years' clinical results].

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical results of Epi-LASIK, a new surface ablation surgical technique for the treatment of low and middle myopia.

Methods: Twenty eyes of 10 patients had Epi-LASIK for the correction of low and middle myopia. Mean preoperative spherical equivalent of the refractive error was 3.

Electron microscopic study of anterior lens capsule allotransplants in chronic corneal ulcers.

Purpose: This study provides ultrastructural morphology and quantitative analysis of allotransplants of anterior lens capsule in the treatment of recurrent corneal ulcers.

Methods: Mechanical ulcers of uniform size were created with a 6-mm corneal trephine in 9 eyes at one-third corneal depth in 6 white New Zealand male rabbits. Following initial epithelial regrowth, an identical injury was created in the same area of each cornea a second time.

[Immunofluorescent analysis of anterior lens capsule allotransplantation for chronic corneal ulcers].

This study uses immunofluorescent analysis to find out in histologic corneal sections a possible rejection reaction in anterior lens capsule allotransplantation for chronic corneal ulcers. The experiment included control group of rabbit corneas with repeat injury to epithelium and anterior stroma as well as surgically treated group. Fluorescein-conjugated human antibodies to IgA, IgM, IgG, complement and fibrinogen were used in the study.