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First Clinical Results of a New Generation of Ablative Solid-State Lasers

In the early 2000s, solid-state lasers emerged as an alternative technology to excimer systems in refractive surgery. Despite some technological limits at the time, good clinical results could be achieved with solid-state laser systems. This prospective case series reports clinical outcomes of five...

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Autores principales: Pajic, Bojan, Pajic-Eggspuehler, Brigitte, Cvejic, Zeljka, Rathjen, Christian, Ruff, Viktor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36675659
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12020731
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Sumario:In the early 2000s, solid-state lasers emerged as an alternative technology to excimer systems in refractive surgery. Despite some technological limits at the time, good clinical results could be achieved with solid-state laser systems. This prospective case series reports clinical outcomes of five eyes treated with a newly developed solid-state laser system (AquariuZ) in three patients. Patients underwent preoperative examination, including corneal topo-and tomography, aberrometry, and confocal microscopy. All patients received a femtosecond LASIK with the Ziemer LDV Z8, a refractive treatment with the AquariuZ solid-state ablation laser, and were then followed up for a period of up to 12 months. The applied aspheric optimized profiles did not induce higher-order aberrations nor spherical aberration in any of these operated subjects. No eye lost BCVA lines throughout the duration of the follow-up. Six months after surgery, the safety index of patient 1 was 5, and for patients 2 and 3, it equaled 1. Confocal laser microscopy imaging findings were comparable to those seen typically for excimer lasers. The obtained results are encouraging and confirm that the new solid-state laser system is safe.