Carmel Matteson was severely farsighted nearly her entire life. The interior designer, whose Culver City store called Designers’ Bloopers was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s show, has worn thick eyeglasses since age 6. As an adult her hyperopia required plus-5 diopter lenses.

Recently, Carmel decided to do something about her poor eyesight. After much research, she made an appointment with Drs. Robert Maloney and Uday Devgan. Dr. Devgan, MVI’s cataract and lens specialist, advised Carmel about a number of new surgical options popular among baby boomers whose already-poor eyesight has worsened with age.

Carmel decided to undergo a 10-minute, painless lens-exchange procedure. Every day she appreciates the newfound freedom of her sharp unaided vision.

“It fabulous,” Carmel said. “Just recently I was slicing some tomatoes and was thinking that when I wore glasses I would have to push them up my nose or bring them a little further down so I could sort of try judging with the knife. And here I’m making all these nice slices and they’re all equal. I could never have done that before.”

There are many vision correction options, all or which center around the two main focusing structures of the eye: the cornea and the lens, Dr. Devgan says. The cornea is the outer clear tissue over the center of the eye whose shape and focusing ability can be optimized with procedures such as LASIK – what most people think of as “laser eye surgery.”

While laser eye surgery is an excellent option for many patients, there are other choices for patients with high degrees of correction and for patients who wish to restore their reading vision as well, said Dr. Devgan.

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New information indicates that the popular contact lens solution ReNu with MoistureLoc is linked to a rare and painful fungal disease in the eye. Although this product was recently pulled from store shelves worldwide, “if you or someone you know is still using this product, it should be discarded immediately,” said Dr. Robert Maloney, Los Angeles LASIK eye surgeon. “This infection, called fusarium keratitis, is extremely serious. It can cause cornea scarring or blindness,” Dr. Maloney said. The following symptoms can indicate fusarium infection in a contact lens wearer:

Fusarium infection has only been associated with soft contact lens wear with the ReNu with MoistureLoc solution. Los Angeles LASIK patients are not at increased risk. Other ReNu products made by Bausch & Lomb have not been associated with fusarium and may be used safely.

Eye doctors may place their patients on antibiotics pending results of laboratory tests, Dr Robert Maloney said. Should fungal treatment be warranted, topical or oral anti-fungal agents may be used. In some cases surgical intervention is necessary.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the federal Food & Drug Administration issued a global recall of the product after the agencies investigated ReNu with MoistureLoc following multiple reports of fusarium keratitis across the country. The product once had a 41 percent share of the U.S. market. The American Optometric Association says there are more than 30 million contact lens wearers.

Until now the corneal disease, which is caused by a fungal organism, rarely has been reported in the contact lens wearing population. It typically occurs after trauma associated with plant matter or in immuno-compromised individuals. The higher incidence of fungal keratitis among normal contact lens wearers is a new finding.

“Our interest in the MoistureLoc product has been based on the disproportionate number of cases of fusarium keratitis associated with ReNu with MoistureLoc compared to the overall product market share,” an FDA spokesman said.

Bausch & Lomb officials discovered that “unique characteristics of the formulation…in certain unusual circumstances can increase the risk of fusarium infection” and have ceased production of the product. In its product recall announcement the FDA also said that “data available do not indicate a problem” with Bausch & Lomb’s ReNu MultiPlus or ReNu Multi-Purpose contact lens cleaning solutions.

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Los Angeles lasik vision correction patients have another reason to be confident in LASIK, now that the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) has approved the new advanced, all-laser LASIK technologies for use on U.S. astronauts.The recent NASA decision was made following review of extensive military clinical data using Advanced CustomVue LASIK with the IntraLase Method, which showed the combination of technologies provides superior safety and vision.

“Even your most-extreme lifestyle is nothing compared to being ejected from an F16 or the G-Forces of atmospheric blastoff,” said Dr. Robert Maloney, Director of the Maloney Vision Institute. “With today’s advanced LASIK technologies — which feature the use of two lasers, instead of one as with earlier forms of the procedure — patients can be confident that they will have improved vision, but also that the procedure has proven to be extremely safe as well.”

Approved for use on consumers almost a decade ago, more than 11 million LASIK procedures have been performed to-date, making it the most-common elective surgical procedure in the U.S. But it wasn’t until LASIK developed into an all-laser procedure that NASA approved it for use on pilots, mission and payload specialists who face extreme, physically demanding conditions in space.

The all-laser LASIK technologies, which utilize wavefront guided and femtosecond lasers, have also been cleared for U.S. military personnel, including most recently Air Force pilots. Beverly Hills Lasik Institute Maloney Vision offers this highly advanced combination of LASIK technologies to its patients.

TODAY’S ADVANCED LASIK USES ALL-LASER TECHNOLOGY
LASIK is a two-step procedure. In advanced LASIK, the computer guided, ultra-fast IntraLase FS (femtosecond) laser is used in the first step to create the corneal flap, virtually eliminating almost all of the most severe, sight threatening LASIK complications related to hand-held microkeratome blade historically used to create corneal flaps. 1 The IntraLase FS laser also provides an optimal corneal surface below the flap, allowing better visual outcomes from the second step of the procedure.

In the second step of advanced LASIK, wavefront-guided technology maps, and then custom-corrects vision based upon the unique characteristics of an individual’s eye. This sophisticated measurement provides 25 times more precision than measurements using standard methods for glasses and contact lenses, taking patients to 20/20 vision and beyond. 2

LASIK’S FINAL FRONTIER
Concerns about the harsh aviation environment prevented the earlier forms of LASIK from use in the military and NASA. To date, aeromedical professionals have been cautious of employing the procedure on military aviators who frequently encounter environmental extremes such as high altitude, dry air, wind blast and “G” forces. In space, these and other conditions add even higher levels of concern due to the extreme precision needed during flight and space walks.

Some notable results of the many clinical trials conducted for the Department of
Defense include:

1.An evaluation of Custom LASIK in 100 military personnel showed that 95 percent achieved 20/20 uncorrected vision or better; these patients, on average, were previously only able to read the first line (the big “E”) of the vision assessment chart.3

2.In a study of different methods to create the LASIK flap, 370 naval personnel underwent bilateral wavefront-guided LASIK with either the femtosecond laser or microkeratome blade. One week after surgery more than 76 percent of femtosecond laser patients achieved an uncorrected visual acuity of at least 20/16 (better than 20/20) compared to 58 percent of microkeratome patients.4

3.In an evaluation of 785 aviators, 89% of Navy pilots rated their ability to land on an aircraft carrier as moderately to significantly better after laser vision correction. None said it was worse after surgery.5

4.A separate study determined that over 90 percent of marksmen had improvement in marksmanship skills after laser vision correction; a significant result given the visual precision of marksmen.6

In the U.S. laser vision correction market, Advanced CustomVue LASIK with the IntraLase Method is the new standard, rapidly becoming the most widely performed laser vision correction procedure. In fact, the majority of premier ophthalmic teaching institutions, including Duke University Medical School, the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at University of Miami, and Stanford University, totaling over 16 domestic and international teaching institutions, use Advanced CustomVue LASIK with the IntraLase Method to train the next generation of LASIK surgeons.

Advanced CustomVue LASIK with the IntraLase Method
The Advanced CustomVue laser vision correction procedure stands in a class of its own with the broadest range of FDA-approved indications. When combined with the power and precision of the IntraLase Method, the Advanced CustomVue procedure represents the most-advanced LASIK procedure available to patients today.

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Source: Captain (Retired) Steven C. Schallhorn, “Refractive Surgery in the Navy”, Presented at the Aerospace Medical Association annual meeting; May 17, 1999; Detroit, Michigan.
Source: Binder PS: “One thousand consecutive IntraLase laser in-situ keratomileusis flaps” Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. V32. June 2005.
Source: Captain (Retired) Steven C. Schallhorn, “US Navy study: Custom PRK versus custom LASIK”. Presented at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons annual meeting; September 8, 2006; London, UK.
Source: Tanzer DJ, Schallhorn SC. Comparison of visual outcomes with femtosecond and mechanical microkeratomes for wavefront-guided LASIK. Presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting; November 13, 2006; Las Vegas, NV.
Source: Schallhorn SC, Tanzer DJ, ‘Refractive Surgery in Naval Aviation’, Presented at the Aerospace Medical Association annual meeting, May 15, 2006, Orlando, FL
Source: Captain (Retired) Steven C. Schallhorn, “Refractive Surgery in the Navy”, Presented at the Aerospace Medical Association annual meeting; May 17, 1999; Detroit, Michigan.

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