title: Management of unsuccessful LASIK surgery.
abstract: Refractive procedures enjoy very high success rates and are among the most commonly performed elective surgeries in medicine. With better insights into preoperative screening, the overwhelming majority of cases have successful outcomes. Unfortunately, however, all refractive surgeons must appropriately manage unsuccessful cases. Unsuccessful refractive surgery procedures may relate to each step of the refractive surgery process: preoperative screening, surgical planning, intraoperative events, and postoperative biomechanical or healing anomalies. This paper reviews the management of unsuccessful laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) procedures, focusing on significant advances related to wavefront-guided therapeutic ablations.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Olhos Renato Ambrósio, Visare Personal Laser and Refracta-RIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Renato
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ambrósio
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jardim
authors.forename: Marcelo V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Netto
authors.forename: Steven E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D001251:Astigmatism / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D003315:Cornea / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D019781:Corneal Topography; D006801:Humans; D020731:Keratomileusis, Laser In Situ / Q000009:adverse effects*; D009216:Myopia / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011379:Prognosis; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence