Assessing Ectasia Risk One Patient at a Time

We’re now a decade and a half into the LASIK era, not exactly long-term by medical standards but long enough that some of the risk associated with the procedure have been put to rest, or at least better understood and managed. Post-LASIK dry eye, for example, in most patients can be avoided or successfully treated until the eye recovers normal function.

A focus on better patient selection, improved diagnostic capabilities and more precise technology to create the flap are a few reasons that the incidence of post-LASIK ectasia does not appear to be on the rise as LASIK procedures have increased. While ectasia can’t yet be consigned to the “problem solved” pile, there is heartening news on both the treatment and diagnostic fronts of this rare but disabling complication.

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