Refractive Surgery and Cataract Surgery: Updates and Challenges
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Ophthalmology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 235
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cataract surgery; clinical ophtalmology; eye diseases; glaucoma; optometry; vision science; corneal diseases; retinal diseases; optical coherence tomography
Interests: ophthalmology
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Dear Colleagues,
[*] Background & history of this topic: Laser refractive surgery (LSR) produces excellent visual outcomes, increasing the number of patients undergoing this procedure exponentially and consequently of those with corneal changes due to refractive surgery who undergo cataract surgery.
[*] Aim and scope of the special issue: In the era of “refractive cataract”, patients expect independence from glasses IOL, but it is well known that LRS determines modifications of corneal parameters such as corneal curvature and keratometric index. Therefore, it makes the formulas based on the mean keratometry, created for a population with no corneal alterations, unsuitable for the calculation of the IOL after refractive surgery. Using traditional formulas for this type of patient can lead to the so called “Hyperopic surprise”. For this reason, it is necessary to use IOL power calculation formula specific for LRS eyes. New frontiers in this field, such as Ray tracing, Artificial Intelligence and Multiformula approaches are available in this scenario. In addition, ocular biometry is very challenging in case of refractive surgery. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to investigate new frontiers in IOL power calculation and biometry in case of refractive surgery.
[*] Cutting-edge research: New method to calculate IOL power after LRS, biometry in case of refractive surgery.
[*] What kind of papers we are soliciting: Original research papers, systematic review, narrative reviews, scoping reviews and systematic reviews with meta-analyzes
Dr. Ferdinando Cione
Prof. Dr. Nicola Rosa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- refractive surgery
- cataract and refractive surgery
- IOL power calculation after refractive surgery
- biometry
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