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Many points need to be considered in cataract patients with prior corneal refractive surgery
I was early into corneal refractive surgery. I was honored to be selected by my friend, the late George O. Waring III, MD, to be one of the eight surgeons in the National Eye Institute-sponsored Prospective Evaluation of Radial Keratotomy study in 1980. I continued performing incisional refractive surgery throughout the 1980s and until the first excimer laser was approved in 1995. In 1987, I obtained one of the first excimer lasers and participated in the clinical trials with Taunton Technologies and later Visx, which led to FDA approval. My (Read more...)