Pediatric LASIK safe, effective, stable over 10 years

HONG KONG LASIK in children was shown to be safe, effective and fairly stable over 10 years of follow-up in a long-term study presented here.

"LASIK in children has the same efficacy, predictability and safety margin of others. Of course, your nomogram should be changed depending on the condition of the other eye," Osama Ibrahim, MD, said at the World Ophthalmology Congress. Dr. Ibrahim said he has been performing surgical refractive procedures on pediatric patients since the introduction of refractive keratometry and has completed more than 800 LASIK cases to treat myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism.

In the study he presented, Dr. Ibrahim showed safety, efficacy and stability data for 264 eyes of 264 patients who all had 10-year follow-up data.

source: OSN Supersite