Two giant advances of ophthalmology, cataract surgery and laser vision correction, are friends and enemies.
On one hand, laser vision correction (LVC) jeopardizes the precision of cataract surgery, but on the other hand it creates a sort of compensation, enhancing the postoperative optical performance of cataract surgery.
This was the key message of the Heritage Lecture, awarded this year to one of the pioneers of refractive surgery, Theo Seiler, MD, PhD, at the virtual European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
Cataract surgeons now face the challenges of operating on eyes
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