Refractive Surgery News

Senate President's Wife Sues Eye Doctor While He Pushes Award Caps

(FRANKFORT, Ky., January 27th, 2004, 10:30 a.m.) -- The wife of Senate President David Williams is suing an eye doctor, while her husband pushes for caps on medical malpractice awards. Robyn Williams claims that eye surgery performed by an ophthalmologist, Dr. Thomas Abell, damaged...
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Dr. William Kellogg Charged With Public Lewdness

Doctor in laser surgery suits charged with lewdness By Karen Mahabir TEANECK - A doctor who was at the center of several lawsuits against Dr. Joseph Dello Russo's high-profile laser eye surgery practice has been arrested on charges of masturbating in a drugstore parking lot....
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Surgeons Discover that Microkeratomes Leave Plastic Particles in Corneas

Plastic Particles at the LASIK Interface Anders Ivarsen, MD, Jan Thøgersen, PhD, Søren Rud Keiding, PhD, Jesper Ø. Hjortdal, MD, PhD, Torben Møller-Pedersen, MD, PhD Purpose:  To investigate the origin, composition, and persistence of the interface particles that frequently are observed after LASIK. Design: ...
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TLC Forces New Patients to Waive Legal Remedies

Strategies to Limit LASIK Liability Rich Daly  EyeWorld The latest legal defense against LASIK lawsuits would move cases out of the courtroom and take sky-is-the-limit jury awards off the table. TLC Vision Corp., a major laser vision correction business in North America, has asked those...
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Corneal Nerve Damage Continues to Increase 2-3 Years After LASIK

Both subbasal and stromal corneal nerves in LASIK flaps recover slowly and do not return to preoperative densities by 3 years after LASIK. The numbers of subbasal nerves appear to decrease between 2 and 3 years after LASIK. The orientation of the regenerated subbasal nerves remains predominantly vertical.
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