The Annual American Academy of Cataract and Refractive Surgeon’s (ASCRS) Symposium and Congress was recently held in San Diego where Dr. Maria Clara Arbelaez, Medical Director, Muscat Eye Laser Center, was the only specialist from the Middle East to participate. Dr. Maria Clara Arbelaez presented two papers at the symposium on ‘Ablation Volume’ and ‘Myopic High Speed Excimer’. In the later, Dr Arbelaez compared the results of myopic LASIK with LASEK with the Schwind Amaris 750S on 225 patients. The results showed amazing precision of the intended correction with 93 per cent of patients achieving results within + or – 0.25D and 100 per cent of patients with + or – 0.50D at six months using either LASIK or LASEK. Furthermore, the results indicated a significant increase in contrast sensitivity (a measurement of visual quality) at six months. The results reiterated the high precision and safety using the Schwind Amaris 750S Excimer Laser. Founded in 1974, ASCRS is considered to be p
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