Eye surgery

Eye surgery

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fluorescein angiography

Eyewear; Optometry

A test to examine blood vessels in the retina, choroid, and iris. A special dye is injected into a vein in the arm and pictures are taken as the dye passes through blood vessels in the eye.

all-laser lasik

Eyewear; Optometry

Lasik with the corneal flap being created by a femtosecond laser rather than with a mechanical microkeratome. See All-Laser Lasik details

penetrating keratoplasty (PK)

Eyewear; Optometry

A surgical procedure when a button-like full thickness segment of the cornea is removed and replaced with a donor cornea from another person; a corneal transplant.

fluorescein staining

Eyewear; Optometry

A tiny amount of a fluorescein dye is placed in the tear film. The color will make microscopic dots appear where the eye has become dry. Excessive staining is an indication of dry eye.

perioperative

Eyewear; Optometry

Pertaining to the period extending from the time of hospitalization or admittance for surgery to the time of discharge.

This is a method of applying excimer laser energy. Rather than applying all excimer energy in a broadbeam across the entire ablation area, or the energy in variable spots sizes across the ablation ...