Corneal Refractive Procedures for the Treatment of Presbyopia

PURPOSE: Refractive surgery has been in use for a long time and is evolving at a fast pace with several new corneal procedures being used for the correction of presbyopia. The purpose of this article is to give a comprehensive review of the literature to evaluate the outcome and success of different...

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Autores principales: Moussa, Kareem, Jehangir, Naz, Mannis, Tova, Wong, Wai L., Moshirfar, Majid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5427700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28553423
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874364101711010059
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author Moussa, Kareem
Jehangir, Naz
Mannis, Tova
Wong, Wai L.
Moshirfar, Majid
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description PURPOSE: Refractive surgery has been in use for a long time and is evolving at a fast pace with several new corneal procedures being used for the correction of presbyopia. The purpose of this article is to give a comprehensive review of the literature to evaluate the outcome and success of different corneal refractive surgical procedures in presbyopic patients. METHODS: We performed a comprehensive search on PubMed to identify published reports of the various procedures utilized in the past and present to correct presbyopia. The outcomes of these procedures were recorded. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: We found that varying rates of success have been reported with these procedures. The results of our exhaustive search are presented in this report for review.
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spelling pubmed-54277002017-05-26 Corneal Refractive Procedures for the Treatment of Presbyopia Moussa, Kareem Jehangir, Naz Mannis, Tova Wong, Wai L. Moshirfar, Majid Open Ophthalmol J Article PURPOSE: Refractive surgery has been in use for a long time and is evolving at a fast pace with several new corneal procedures being used for the correction of presbyopia. The purpose of this article is to give a comprehensive review of the literature to evaluate the outcome and success of different corneal refractive surgical procedures in presbyopic patients. METHODS: We performed a comprehensive search on PubMed to identify published reports of the various procedures utilized in the past and present to correct presbyopia. The outcomes of these procedures were recorded. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: We found that varying rates of success have been reported with these procedures. The results of our exhaustive search are presented in this report for review. Bentham Open 2017-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5427700/ /pubmed/28553423 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874364101711010059 Text en © 2017 Moussa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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