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ESCRS FLACS study update: More postop complications with femto than phaco
BARCELONA — The updated European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons study on femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery finds that “femto does not outperform phaco,” according to Peter Barry, MD, who delivered this year’s results.Although the ESCRS FLACS study found the femtosecond procedure to result in significantly better outcomes in terms of postoperative and surgically induced astigmatism, postoperative complications outnumbered those of phaco surgery, leading to a significantly higher percentage of patients with worse visual acuity than before surgery, Barry said at the ESCRS meeting.