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VIDEO: New laser offers further improvement to laser scleral microporation
BOSTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@ASCRS, AnnMarie Hipsley, DPT, PhD, and George O. Waring IV, MD, FACS, discuss the latest advances in laser scleral microporation.Hipsley said that the GenII VisioLite laser for laser scleral microporation (LSM) is on the pathway to commercialization and may be available by the end of the year.
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Laser scleral microporation: Unique method to treat presbyopia goes back to basics
Laser scleral microporation is a unique therapeutic solution for presbyopia that goes back to basics, rejuvenating the eye and restoring the natural dynamic mechanism of accommodation and disaccommodation. “Nature frequently develops dynamic processes, which work well for most individuals for the first 40 or 50 years of life but then, because of changes in the intrinsic …
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What other future treatments have promise? Laser scleral microporation is under investigation as a laser treatment for patients with emmetropic presbyopia. Four quadrants of the sclera are treated with an Er:YAG laser to uncrosslink the sclera and rejuvenate the accommodative mechanism (see video demonstration below). Treatment does not appear to affect the visual axis or …
read moreVIDEO: Ace Vision Group provides update on presbyopia laser development
SAN FRANCISCO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@AAO, AnnMarie Hipsley, DPT, PhD, and Alex Lopez of Ace Vision Group provide an update on the development of the VisioLite ophthalmic laser for presbyopia. The company is in a Series B2 round of funding.
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