FLEx results stable after 10 years

Patients who underwent femtosecond lenticule extraction for the treatment of myopia and myopic astigmatism had stable results 10 years after the procedure.
All 108 subjects from a 2006-2007 study of the FLEx procedure were invited to be reevaluated in this long-term follow-up study conducted by Helios Klinikum Erfurt and Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. Forty patients, totaling 77 eyes, participated.
Five eyes of five patients lost one Snellen line of corrected distance visual acuity after 10 years, with none of the patients losing two or more lines. More than half (Read more...)

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