Twelve months after treatment, there was no difference between femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery and conventional phacoemulsification in any parameter evaluated, one researcher told Ocular Surgery News.
However, femtosecond laser-assisted astigmatic keratotomies may provide more effective astigmatism correction than manual limbal relaxing incisions.
Nick Stanojcic, FRCOphth, and colleagues at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, U.K., randomly assigned 400 patients to undergo either conventional phacoemulsication surgery or femtosecond laser-assisted cataract