by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Camarillo that I saw in my Ventura office asked me about the choice between PRK and LASIK for athletes. LASIK laser eye surgery involves creating a thin flap on the surface layer of the cornea before applying the laser to reshape the cornea. The flap is then positioned back into place after […]
by David Shapiro, MD
I saw a patient from Oxnard in my Ventura office yesterday who asked me about LASIK and professional athletes. Freddie Freeman, Atlanta Braves’ first baseman, just had LASIK laser vision correction surgery in the offseason. Freeman is famous for wearing glasses but a fan noticed a picture of Freeman on his family’s Instagram page that […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A nurse from Santa Maria that I recently saw in my San Luis Obispo office asked me about published literature on LASIK. A scientific presentation at the Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Day at the recent annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology looked at a summary of all the world’s published, peer-reviewed medical literature for […]
by David Shapiro, MD
The FDA has approved Luxturna, a breakthrough new gene therapy eye medicine for a very rare inherited retinal disease called “biallelic RPE65”. Approximately 1 to 2 thousand people in the United States have this disease, but perhaps an even larger significance to this medicine is that it sets the stage to treat other, more common […]
by David Shapiro, MD
Among the many problems from the fires in Ventura County and Santa Barbara County is the very poor air quality. Soot and microscopic particles create not only breathing problems, but eye irritation as well — whether or not you’ve had LASIK. Patients with underlying dry eye disease tend to be bothered most. In general there are […]
