After 10 years of lasik eye surgery has proven effective, safe and accurate.
10 years ago that interventions started the first LASIK refractive surgery to correct large myopia. After analyzing their evolution a study confirms the safety and effectiveness of the technique.
In the January issue of American Journal of Ophthalmology, Medical Journal announced the results of a study that concluded the long-term safety of refractive surgery).
The queratotomía rectify Photoreagent is used to the mild to moderate myopia, while the Lasik is used for large myopias. In the Spanish trial have been reviewed 196 eyes with high myopia of 118 patients who had to correct at least ten diopters to achieve a vision of 20/20. Faults in the correction of visual acuity were 77 per cent of the best corrected vision before surgery.
This vision improved in a line. Only 5 percent of the eyes lost two lines in the best corrected vision before surgery and 40 percent avoided the use of glasses. 61 per cent of the cases, 119 eyes were between ± 2 diopters to ten years. Only two eyes, 1 per cent, developed corneal ectasia. The retreatment rate was 27 percent.
Data predictable
We evaluated the follow-up to ten years after surgery. According to Jorge Alió, a professor at the University Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, the results are encouraging, as the refractive correction implies a ceiling for applying this technique.
“The study has enabled us to demonstrate that, despite the limitations of the technique Lasik, the results were predictable on the efficacy and safety for patients with large myopias long term.”
The limit optimal prediction technique is about ten diopters of myopia. This study can become a reference, “because it has enabled us to meet the safety, precision and limits on the use of Lasik eye with large myopias.” The data were reported at the last meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, where he received the prize for best presentation.