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Upcoming Meetings

April 21 - 23, 2010 (Damascus, Syria)
Syrian Ophthalmological Society
ISRS Course: Refractive Surgery A to Z
www.sos-sy.com

May 12 – 14, 2010 (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Magrabi International Congress

June 5 – 9, 2010 (Berlin, Germany)
World Ophthalmology Congress
www.woc2010.org

ISRS News

An Open Letter from the ISRS President
Dr. Alaa M. El Danasoury outlines ISRS goals and priorities for the next two years.

$Refractive Outlook$

February 2010

Double Feature: Two articles are featured in this month’s Outlook. One discusses what to consider when deciding whether to use excimer laser or lens-based surgery to treat highly myopic eyes. The second considers news that African-Americans are five times as likely to reject a corneal graft as Caucasians.

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$Journal of Refractive Surgery$

February 2010

Safety and Effectiveness of Thin-flap LASIK Using a Femtosecond Laser and Microkeratome in the Correction of High Myopia in Chinese Patients
Two hundred seventy-four eyes of 148 Chinese patients with high myopia whose spherical equivalent refraction (SE) ranged from –6.12 to –15.75 diopters (D) received thin-flap LASIK with the VISX S4 IR excimer laser system.

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