EyeWorld is the official news magazine of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery.
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March 2013 Laser energy in cataract surgery could by Professor Valentina Kopayeva and Elena Vialova, M.D., The S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution, Moscow C urrently, the technology of femtosecond laser-assisted phacoemulsification has attracted rising interest among ophthalmologists. Many questions abound, such as: • What sort of negative side effects does ultrasound energy have on surrounding tissue? • Is there a difference in the time it takes to perform cataract surgery with an Nd YAG laser, as opposed to ultrasound? • Does this method have any effects on postop recovery time? Is there an increased or decreased incidence of infection or complications? • Would it be possible to combine femtosecond laser with Nd YAG laser to complete cataract surgery without using ultrasound energy? Stages of bimanual surgical technique of laser cataract extraction. The right tip is laser energy combined with irrigation, the left tip is the transparent tube of the aspirator. Source: Valentina Kopayeva, M.D.