Refractive Surgery News

Some Link Depression, Failed LASIK

Patients with impaired sight turn suicidal; surgeons reject any connection Sabine Vollmer, Staff Writer Patients who undergo vision-correcting laser eye surgery sign a release form with an extensive list of risks, but some researchers and former patients say a potential complication is not mentioned: depression...
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Eye Surgery Leaves Many with Problems

Of millions of patients, more than a few have serious, lasting complications Sabine Vollmer, Staff Writer Millions of Americans have undergone laser eye surgery to correct bad vision, and along with the procedure’s popularity something else is coming into focus: its hazards. Advertising stresses the...
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Singaporeans Reject Lasik in Favor of Neurovision

More myopic Singaporeans resort to Neurovision treatment to achieve better vision Channel NewsAsia Using the novel Neurovision treatment, more myopic Singaporeans are now able to throw away their eyeglasses. The non-invasive treatment has the potential of giving near-perfect vision and is good news for the...
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International Refractive Surgery Club: Is it a Front Organization for Questionable Surgeons?

Mission Statement Questionable Surgeon Arrested on Drug Charges The International Refractive Surgery Club is an international organization of the world's leading refractive surgeons. Membership is limited to those Ophthalmic Surgeons who have been chosen by their peers for their proficiency and skill in state-of-the-art...
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Keeping Sight of the Risks

Nottingham Evening Post When Dave heard about laser eye surgery he thought he would be finally free of his spectacles. He had been hampered by glasses since he became long-sighted at the age of 18. "It got to the stage where glasses were just getting...
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New Zealand Accident Compensation Corporation Pays Claims for Failed Surgeries

ACC pays out for eye claims Eleven people have been awarded compensation for medical misadventure after laser eye surgery in the past five years. Nineteen claims have been made to the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) between July 1999 and last month by laser eye- surgery...
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Scottish Surgeon: 10% of "Successful" Patients at Risk of Future Complications

Surgeon warns of laser eye cure risks  Expert claims dangers of treatment not made clear  Peter Martell Scotsman http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1465082004 LASER eye surgery firms are underplaying the risks associated with the operation and doing too little research on its long-term effects, a leading Scottish expert has...
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Rock Star Unable to Drive at Night Following Lasik

50 things about U2 The New York Post NOW a quarter-century old and with its members well into their 40s, the Irish supergroup U2 is that true rock rarity: a still-intact band that has sold more than 125 million records worldwide and remains consistently relevant....
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Ohio Ophthalmologist Stripped of Gun License

By Jim Phillips The Athens News In a case that is reportedly creating a buzz among local police officers and gun-rights advocates, an Athens doctor who allegedly pulled a gun during a traffic confrontation has had his concealed-carry permit temporarily suspended. "It has been a...
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LASIK Reduces Supply of Usable Donor Corneas

LASIK may hurt donor corneas Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico) Jackie Jadrnak Journal Staff Writer * Doctor says weakened spot may rip during removal for transplant If you have LASIK surgery to correct your eyesight, a little semicircular line, a sliver of a healed spot, is...
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Oregon Clinic Has Infectious Outbreak for Years: Blames Surgical Gloves

After years of high-incidence DLK at surgical clinic, gloves found to be instigator Matt Young EyeWorld Staff Writer www.eyeworld.org/printarticle.php?id=439 Outbreaks of diffuse lamellar keratitis plagued Drs. Fine, Hoffman, & Packer LLC, Eugene, Ore., from 2000-2003, with the incidence as high as 37% in one three-month...
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Loss of Vision Quality Top Complaint of Refractive Patients

Matt Young EyeWorld Staff Writer www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=445 New evidence suggests that the most common complaint among dissatisfied refractive surgery patients is a loss of quality of vision, said Terrence P. O'Brien, M.D., associate professor of ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore....
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T.V. Show Compares LASIK surgeons to Online Perverts

`Law & Order' puts Patriot Act on trial Thank heavens for sweeps. Only during these arbitrarily chosen months on Nielsen's calendar do I learn the truth about online perverts and fly-by-night LASIK surgeons on our suddenly perked-up local news. Also, I get to watch episodes...
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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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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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Lasik Surgeon Says People Who Don't Have LASIK Save Themselves "A Lot of Grief"

Ultimately, Boston doctors may simply reflect the conservative sensibility of their patients. For instance, Boston consistently had among the lowest numbers of volunteers willing to undergo tests of vision correction surgery in the late 1980s and early '90s, recalled Dr. Roger Steinert of Harvard Medical...
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Spooked by Surgery? New Contacts Aim to Correct Myopia While you Sleep

Lenses by Night, Clear Sight by Day Business Week Carol Marie Cropper IMAGINE CONTACT LENSES YOU pop in before going to bed at night and take out -- with clear vision -- in the morning. Sort of like a night brace for the eyes. About...
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Prominent Ophthalmologist Arrested on Drug Charges

By J.M. KALIL REVIEW-JOURNAL A prominent ophthalmologist who has performed hundreds of LASIK eye surgeries on Las Vegans has been charged with felony cocaine possession. Dr. Kurt Buzard, owner of the 30,000-square-foot Buzard Eye Institute on West Sahara Avenue, was arrested last week and released...
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STAAR Surgical Company Claims Implantable Contact Lenses Safer than Lasik

Ophthalmics device company reports 99.4% patient satisfaction STAAR Surgical Company (STAA) reported that the July/August 2003 edition of the Journal of Refractive Surgery has published the findings of a study comparing the retinal image quality and postoperative aberrations of patients of laser in situ keratomileusis...
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University Partners with Industry to Assist Patients Injured by LASIK

Wendy Lyons Sunshine  Special To Houston Business Journal In the hopes of tossing away their glasses and contact lenses forever, nearly 3 million people have flocked to have LASIK and other vision-correcting procedures done since they first became available in the mid-1990s. Last year alone,...
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Refractive Community Responds to Public Postings of Private Physician Correspondences

Pillsbury & Levinson, LLP press release.Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today recently informed readers that excerpts of private e-mails exchanged between physician members of the International Society for Refractive Surgery (ISRS) had been posted on the public Internet newsgroup alt.lasik-eyes, causing substantial concern among the refractive...
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Ophthalmologists' E-mails Posted on Public Internet Newsgroup

http://www.crstoday.com/02_current/crst0103_01_news.html Glenn Hagele, Founder and Executive Director of the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance (CRSQA), recently alerted a number of physicians, as well as Julia Lewis, the Executive Director of the International Society for Refractive Surgery (ISRS), and Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today, that...
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Laser Eye Surgery: Take a Second Look

As its popularity grows, so do post-op problems  Lewis Braham www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_20/b3783110.htm Laser eye surgery has become so routine that ophthalmologists advertise it on billboards and perform the operation at shopping-mall clinics. But the seeming simplicity of the 15-minute procedure to correct nearsightedness can be misleading....
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Dr. Johnny Gayton Declares LASIK to be Excessively Risky

Ophthalmologists debating safety of Lasik procedure Charlie Lanter The Macon Telegraph A Middle Georgia ophthalmologist raised some patients' - and doctors' - eyebrows recently when he announced his decision to stop offering the popular Lasik vision-correction surgery. Johnny Gayton, owner and chief surgeon for Eyesight...
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LASIK Letdown - Surgeons Mute Their Claims of Success as Lawsuits Mount and Authorities Clamp Down

Carla McClain Arizona Daily Star The first signs that something is going wrong with the hottest elective surgery in the United States - LASIK eye surgery - are emerging here and nationwide. A "gold-rush mentality" developing around the quick, pay-up-front surgery to correct nearsightedness and...
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