Outcome and complications of photorefractive keratectomy for myopia and astigmatism

Abstract

"The aims of this study were: 1) to describe the outecome of photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) for myopia and stigmatism in terms of the refractive outcome (addressing its accuracy) and the visual outcome (addressing its safety); 2) to describe the effect on binocular vision of staged bilateral treatment ; 3) to describe the complications of PRK; 4) to describe therapeutic measures to treat hyperopic eyes following over-correction of myopia by PRK, acommon complication; 4) to assess the ability of topically applied hyaluronic acid to effect epithelial healing following PRK." --p. 1.