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BARCELONA — Measurement at a 2 mm chord length was more strongly correlated with overall ocular refractive astigmatism than when a 5 mm peripheral chord length was used, according to a speaker here. “We wanted to look at that relationship between corneal astigmatic power and ocular refraction and also look at different parameters such as chord length and … different techniques for measuring corneal power,” Phillip J. Buckhurst, MD, said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.

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BARCELONA — Richard Packard, MD, FRCS, FRCOphth, was honored as the Binkhorst Medal lecturer, “probably one of the greatest honors that can be given to an ophthalmologist in their career,” he said.Packard, who has been performing phacoemulsification since 1979, related the evolution of the capsulotomy in his lecture at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.

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BARCELONA — Thierry Zeyen, MD, outlined the structure and statutes of the European Alliance for Vision Research and Ophthalmology – or EU EYE – at a launch meeting here. EU EYE is a non-profit pan-European advocacy organization whose main objectives are to raise political and public awareness of ophthalmology and to increase funding for vision research, said Zeyen, who is president of the organization as well as a representative of the European Glaucoma Society.

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BARCELONA — At the World Congress of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Dominique Brémond-Gignac, MD, talks about aniridia and its implications, including glaucoma, congenital cataract, retinal and optic nerve dysplasia and hypoplasia.

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BARCELONA — At the Ophthalmology Futures European Forum, Calvin Roberts, MD, chief medical officer of Bausch + Lomb, discusses the widespread adoption of new intraocular lenses, specifically designed for femtosecond laser cataract surgery.

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