Pre-LASIK astigmatic keratotomy in these cases is more precise and reproducible with the application of laser technology as compared with manual corneal incisions. Yet another area beyond refractive ...

Astigmatism, an optical defect that results in blurred vision secondary to an inability to sharply focus an object onto the human retina, often has to be dealt with by the clinician by way of ...

In recent years, increasing numbers of people have traded in their eyeglasses or contact lenses for a surgical procedure designed to correct nearsightedness. The surgery, called radial keratotomy, is ...

A 73-year-old female was referred with cataracts. Bilateral radial keratotomy (RK) had been performed 9 years previously for high myopia; on her left eye this had been supplemented with astigmatic ...

Kim Shea, wearing a light-blue surgical cap over her light-brown hair, leaned back in the doctor’s chair. Covered by a fuzzy white blanket and holding a teddy bear to match, the 28-year-old woman ...

The idea behind radial keratotomy — or RK — eye surgery in which a doctor makes multiple incisions in the cornea, was tantalizingly simple and appealing. “The purpose of the incisions is to reduce the ...

Brent Jesperson is a former Toronto dentist who gave up his profession in 2009 due to failing vision from radial keratotomy procedures he underwent in the early 1990s. He has filed a $12- million ...