FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 351:470-475 July 29, 2004 Number 5 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear PubMed Citation

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they exist. The article ends with the author's clinical recommendations.

A 32-year-old woman with moderate myopia and mild dry eye has worn soft contact lenses for 12 years. She notes decreased tolerance of the lenses and must remove them after only four to five hours. On examination, her refraction is –4.25 + 1.0 x 90 (–3.75 diopters of spherical equivalent and 1 diopter of astigmatism at 90 degrees) in the right eye . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Clinical Problem

Strategies and Evidence

Benefits of PRK and LASIK

Risks

Preoperative Screening

Areas of Uncertainty

PRK versus LASIK

Custom Corneal Ablation Procedures

Guidelines

Conclusions and Recommendations

Source Information

From Cole Eye Institute, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Wilson at Cole Eye Institute, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44195 or at wilsons4@ccf.org.

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Chen, W.-L., Chang, H.-W., Hu, F.-R. (2008). In Vivo Confocal Microscopic Evaluation of Corneal Wound Healing after Epi-LASIK. IOVS 49: 2416-2423 [Abstract] [Full Text]