INTERESTING EYE NEWS & CLINICAL PEARLS

This link lists the various signs and symptoms of Myasthenia Gravis. Symptoms a patients might present with would be the following: Variable ocular fatigue and weakness, ptosis, droopy eyelids that appear worse at the end of the day, orbicularis weakness, limitation of ocular motility, paradoxical lid retraction, Cogan's lid twitch (transient eyelid retraction following an extended period of down gaze), exposure keratitis and intermittent diplopia.

Correction Ranges WaveLight's Allegretto Wave LASIK technology is approved in the United States for the correction of the following refractive errors: Wavefront-guided Allegretto Wave: Up to -7.00 D of myopia Up to -3.00 D of myopic astigmatism Wavefront-optimized Allegretto Wave: Up to -12.00 D of myopia Up to -6.00 D of myopic astigmatism Up to +6.00 D of hyperopia Up to +5.00 D of hyperopic astigmatism Results of clinical trials Approval of WaveLight's Allegretto Wave technology for LASIK surgery in the United States is based on the results of clinical trials of the company's wavefront-optimized procedure mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the clinical trial for the correction of nearsightedness, uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) results 3 months after surgery were: 84.4% of the eyes were 20/20 or better. 98.0% of eyes were 20/40 or better. In the clinical trial for the correction of farsightedness (with and without astigmatism) UCVA results 6 mon...