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Clarity Medical Systems Inc. has received a patent for an intraoperative capture and display system that continuously streams real-time refractive wavefront measurements during vision correction procedures, the company announced in a news release. Additionally, the technology overlays data on a live image of the patient’s eye.The newly patented system is intended to expand Clarity’s Holos product line, and its first use is intended to be used in refractive cataract surgery as the Holos IntraOp, a module that can be attached to a standard surgical microscope, according to the release.

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TORONTO — Intraoperative spectral-domain optical coherence tomography during macula-involving detachment repair reveals persistent subretinal fluid in all patients under perfluoro-n-octane tamponade, a presenter here said.Furthermore, intraoperative predictors of poor visual acuity outcomes included increased retinal thickness, increased outer retinal thickness and disorganized outer retina, but presence of fluid did not result in a statistically significant difference between good and poor visual acuity outcomes, Sunil K. Srivastava, MD, said at the American Society of Retina Specialists meeting.

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Allen C. Ho, MD, discusses lessons learned from the first commercial injection of Jetrea (ocriplasmin) for vitreomacular disease at the American Society of Retina Specialists meeting held recently in Toronto.

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