Mark Packer, MD Reviews Highlights and New Technologies of ASCRS 2008

Dr. Mark Packer discusses ASCRS 2008 highlights in a conversation with Parag Majmudar, MD. The "Around the world in 90 minutes" session encompassed major geographies and their respective cataract societies. Fostered a discussion on aspheric IOLs, correcting for aberration and lens selection. New technologies: Ed Sarver and associates VOLCT software -- takes the output from any topographer and give you Zernike coefficient for the cornea. Then match the corneal aberration and compensate with the IOL to net zero. Another aberrometer you can use is the Tracey iTrace. It incorporates a (Read more...)

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