Even small amounts of astigmatism reduce patients’ postoperative quality of uncorrected vision and satisfaction after refractive cataract surgery.
Refractive cataract surgery patients have high expectations of their surgical outcomes. They live more active lives than previous generations in this age group and expect to reduce their dependence on glasses while meeting the demands of their lifestyles.
New technologies are fine-tuning astigmatism correction, helping surgeons achieve better visual quality than ever before.
Most recently, our objective for postoperative astigmatism was less