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EW SHOW DAILY
ASCRS•ASOA Symposium & Congress, San Diego 2015
'Hot Off the Press' highlights top
papers from entire meeting
by Ellen Stodola EyeWorld Staff Writer
digital.eyeworld.org
I
n "Hot Off the Press," the
final session of the 2015
ASCRS•ASOA Symposium
& Congress, John Vukich,
MD, Madison, Wis.; John
Hovanesian, MD, Laguna Hills,
Calif.; Eric Donnenfeld, MD,
Rockville Centre, N.Y., Bonnie
Henderson, MD, Boston; Reay
Brown, MD, Atlanta; and David
Chang, MD, Los Altos, Calif.,
commented on presentations high-
lighting some of the best papers
from the meeting as a whole.
Ehud Assia, MD, Tel-Aviv,
Israel, presented a paper from Jay
Pepose, MD, PhD, St. Louis, that
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EyeWorld Daily News • The official ASCRS•ASOA San Diego Daily
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
compared depth of focus and meso-
pic contrast sensitivity in a small ap-
erture corneal inlay, accommodating
IOL, and in multifocal patients. The
purpose of the study was to com-
pare monocular defocus curves and
binocular mesopic contrast sensitiv-
ity. The study included the KAMRA
inlay (AcuFocus, Irvine, Calif.), the
Crystalens AO (Bausch + Lomb,
Bridgewater, N.J.), the ReSTOR 3.0
(Alcon, Fort Worth, Texas), and the
Tecnis Multifocal (Abbott Medical
Optics, Abbott Park, Ill.).
The study was a retrospective
comparison of 6-month data from
T
his year's "X-Rounds:
Refractive Cataract Surgery
to the Max" was dominat-
ed by newcomer panelist
Bonnie An Henderson,
MD, Boston.
The X-Rounds symposium is
a climactic, rapid-fire session that
offers a concise summary of the best
of each ASCRS•ASOA Symposium &
Congress framed as a competition
between members of the panel,
judged by the audience.
"This is the most interesting
session for me," said Eric D.
Donnenfeld, MD, Rockville
Centre, N.Y.
This year, Dr. Henderson gar-
nered her first win in the first cate-
gory of the symposium on what new
things the surgeons have been doing
in the last year by suggesting a new
approach to preventing negative
dysphotopsias.
X-Rounds: 'Rookie of
the Year,' new FDA
approvals, MIGS
by Chiles Aedam R. Samaniego EyeWorld Asia-Pacific Senior Staff Writer
Dr. Assia presents at the "Hot Off the Press" session.
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Dr. Henderson discusses new approach to preventing negative dysphotopsias.