Dr. William Stacy worries about LASIK Complications

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Newsgroups: sci.med.vision
From: William Stacy <wst...@obase.net>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 20:23:57 GMT
Local: Fri, May 6 2005 12:23 pm
Subject: Re: LASIK eye surgery, starburst

I just happened to be listening to an audio-digest ophthalmology
report
as I was driving home last night and David Hwang, M.D. (ucsf sch med)
was reporting on some cases of "late onset DLK". According to him,
the
flap never really heals, and can be lifted many years out, and can be
very subject to epithelial disruption, esp. if there was any epith.
disruption during the original lasik. He also mentioned that fluid
can
accumulate in the interface which can falsly lower the iop reading,
even
causing a glaucoma to look like uveitis or corneal dystrophy. He also
said that wave front can screw up if the surgeon isn't paying
attention,
citing a case where the pt had sat around for a while after fluress
was
used, causing drying and deformation of her cornea, which was then
mapped by the laser, and you guessed it, she got a nice reverse
imprint
of that dried cornea on top of the refractive fix. My unease grows.

w.stacy, o.d.

Now that the word is out that there is better technology---better
lasers, better topographers, etc.---on the horizon, LASIK should dry
up for a while. Prospective patients should demand the best the world
has to offer and tell doctors that they'll wait for it.

On Jan 29, 6:31�pm, badla...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I am not a doctor.
>
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> Newsgroups: sci.med.vision
> From: William Stacy <wst...@obase.net>
> Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 20:23:57 GMT
> Local: Fri, May 6 2005 12:23 pm
> Subject: Re: LASIK eye surgery, starburst
>
> I just happened to be listening to an audio-digest ophthalmology
> report
> as I was driving home last night and David Hwang, M.D. (ucsf sch med)
> was reporting on some cases of "late onset DLK". According to him,
> the
> flap never really heals, and can be lifted many years out, and can be
> very subject to epithelial disruption, esp. if there was any epith.
> disruption during the original lasik. He also mentioned that fluid
> can
> accumulate in the interface which can falsly lower the iop reading,
> even
> causing a glaucoma to look like uveitis or corneal dystrophy. He also
> said that wave front can screw up if the surgeon isn't paying
> attention,
> citing a case where the pt had sat around for a while after fluress
> was
> used, causing drying and deformation of her cornea, which was then
> mapped by the laser, and you guessed it, she got a nice reverse
> imprint
> of that dried cornea on top of the refractive fix. *My unease grows.
>
> w.stacy, o.d.

Once the whiner set gets a foothold of a newsgroup you folks will have
to wade thru a ton of spam before you get the info you seek.

All he knows how to do is plaster spam labels on informational posts
about LASIK complications. He must work in a spam canning factory,
although he really smells like rotten fish.

LASIK Nightmare wrote:
> All he knows how to do is plaster spam labels on informational posts
> about LASIK complications. He must work in a spam canning factory,
> although he really smells like rotten fish.

How about sparing sci.med.vision?

Please?

On Jan 29, 7:34?pm, "serebel" <sere...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 10:31?pm, Neil Brooks <neil0...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > LASIK Nightmare wrote:
> > > All he knows how to do is plaster spam labels on informational posts
> > > about LASIK complications. ?He must work in a spam canning factory,
> > > although he really smells like rotten fish.How about sparing sci.med.vision?
>
> > Please?
>
> Too late, they'll spam their mothers too.

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"LASIK Nightmare" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Jan 29, 7:34?pm, "serebel" <sere...@aol.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 29, 10:31?pm, Neil Brooks <neil0...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > LASIK Nightmare wrote:
>> > > All he knows how to do is plaster spam labels on informational posts
>> > > about LASIK complications. ?He must work in a spam canning factory,
>> > > although he really smells like rotten fish.How about sparing
>> > > sci.med.vision?
>>
>> > Please?
>>
>> Too late, they'll spam their mothers too.
>
>

Listen to the segment on LASIK:

http://www.archive.org/details/Insight_060920

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