Publications by authors named "W V Hatch"
The annual meeting for the Intermountain Branch was held in April 2024 on the campus of Brigham Young University. There were 127 branch members from Utah, Idaho, and Nevada who attended the meeting and were composed of undergraduate students, graduate or medical students, and faculty. This report highlights the diversity of, and the emerging trends in, the research conducted by American Society for Microbiology members in the Intermountain Branch.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To compare long-term outcomes of simultaneous accelerated corneal crosslinking (CXL) with intrastromal corneal ring segments (CXL-ICRS) with simultaneous accelerated CXL with topography-guided photorefractive keratectomy (CXL-TG-PRK) in progressive keratoconus (KC).
Setting: Kensington Eye Institute and Bochner Eye Institute, Toronto, Canada.
Design: Prospective nonrandomized interventional study.
Purpose: To investigate the psychometric performance and responsiveness of Catquest-9SF, a patient-reported questionnaire developed to evaluate visual function as related to daily tasks, in patients referred for cataract surgery in Ontario, Canada.
Methods: This is a pooled analysis on prospective data collected for previous projects. Subjects were recruited from three tertiary care centers in Peel region, Hamilton, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between subjective (slit lamp examination [SLE]) and objective (densitometry) measurements of corneal haze after accelerated corneal crosslinking (aCXL), assess the relationship between densitometry and corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), and determine the effect of baseline characteristics on densitometry after aCXL in eyes with progressive keratoconus and other ectasias.
Setting: Kensington Eye Institute and Bochner Eye Institute, Toronto, Canada.
Design: Retrospective analysis of a prospective interventional cohort study.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to compare the effectiveness of femtosecond-enabled deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (FE-DALK) with standard deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (S-DALK) for patients with keratoconus or corneal scarring.
- A total of 100 eyes from 97 participants were randomly assigned to either FE-DALK or S-DALK, with key measurements focused on postoperative astigmatism and other visual outcomes taken at 15 months.
- The results indicated similar outcomes for both techniques, showing comparable levels of postoperative astigmatism and surgically induced corneal astigmatism, suggesting that both methods are equally effective.