YAG laser for treatment of floaters still in pioneer stage

I obtained a YAG laser very early. I visited my friend Danièle Aron-Rosa, MD, in Paris after her first reports, and she allowed me to perform YAG laser capsulotomy on three of her patients. I was amazed. I had been doing phacoemulsification with posterior chamber lens implantation since 1977. I performed posterior capsulotomy with a needle knife under a Zeiss Opmi 1 operating microscope through the pars plana in my office surgery suite. It was a disruptive innovation to be able to perform a posterior capsulotomy with a painless laser (Read more...)

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