Dr. William Stacy worries about LASIK Complications

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Newsgroups: sci.med.vision
From: William Stacy <>
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.

 

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.

 

How about sparing sci.med.vision?

Please?

 

news:...

 

Listen to the segment on LASIK:

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

 

Mrs. Pauls vs Gortons

 

LasikNightmare sure seems to be a veteran poster of poison.. and is
being quite evasive about identifying their previous alias.

I stick to my theory that out of 14 million lasik procedures, there
are only three nutjobs behind 95% of this gabage being posted. Burch
is one... Minarik is two... and who might #3 be? Just who are you
LasikNightmare?


By the way, Minarik has always been at the lowest depths of the
malcontents. The only reason he is posting now is becuase virtually
all the malcontents other than some seriously menatally ill people
have ceased to act as his mercenaries.

 

news:...

 

spam

 

All right already. Enough of the repeitious posting of what I said
almost 2 years ago. For what it's worth, I'm less uncomfortable with
LASIK now than I was then. It's still a viable procedure for many.

w.stacy, o.d.

 

Glad you posted this Dr. Stacy.

The legion of doom has been taking your old statements out of context
and misrepresenting your views in an attempt to fulfill their own
irrational agenda.

I appreciate that you took the time to clear up your position.