Proceedings of the NIDEK NAVEX Seminar Middle East & Africa
Sponsored by NIDEK Co Ltd
November 2007 Supplement

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Introduction to the Proceedings of the NIDEK NAVEX Middle East & Africa Seminar

Alaa El Danasoury, MD, FRCS, Guest Editor and George O. Waring III, MD, FACS, FRCOphth

Interpretation of Aberrometry Measurements in Cataract Surgery

Edoardo A. Ligabue, MD and Cristina Giordano, OD

Objective Assessment of the Quality of Vision Before and After Repositioning of a Dislocated Iris-fixated Aphakic Anterior Chamber Lens

Damien Gatinel, MD, PhD and Thanh Hoang-Xuan, MD

Long-term Effects on Corneal Keratocytes of Mitomycin C During Photorefractive Keratectomy: A Randomized Contralateral Eye Confocal Microscopy Study

Edoardo Midena, MD; Catia Gambato, MD; Stefania Miotto, MD; Marta Cortese, MD; Rudy Salvi, MD and Alessandra Ghirlando, MD

A Prospective, Randomized, Contralateral Eye Comparison of Epithelial Laser in situ Keratomileusis and Photorefractive Keratectomy in Eyes Prone to Haze

Tamer O. Gamaly, FRCS; Alaa El Danasoury, MD, FRCS and Akef El Maghraby, MD

Comparison of Laser Epithelial Keratomileusis With and Without Mitomycin C for Wavefront Customized Surface Ablations

Eliane Mayumi Nakano, MD; Harkaran S. Bains; Flavio Eduardo Hirai, MD, MPH; Waldir Portellinha, MD; Marivaldo Oliveira, MD and Kozo Nakano, MD

Wavefront- Versus Topography-guided Customized Ablations With the NIDEK EC-5000 CX II in Surface Ablation Treatment: Refractive and Aberrometric Outcomes

Paolo Vinciguerra, MD; Elena Albè, MD; Fabrizio I. Camesasca, MD; Silvia Trazza, BS and Daniel Epstein, MD, PhD

Optimal Balance of Wavefront Aberrations in Photorefractive Keratectomy

Khristo P. Takhchidi, MD, PhD; Alexander V. Doga, MD, PhD and Galina F. Kachalina, MD, PhD

Active Cyclotorsion Error Correction During LASIK for Myopia and Myopic Astigmatism With the NIDEK EC-5000 CX III Laser

Sudhank Bharti, MD and Harkaran S. Bains

Confocal Microscopy of Corneal Wound Healing After Ho:YAG Laser Thermokeratoplasty

Alexander V. Doga, MD, PhD; Irina A. Mushkova, MD and Nataliya V. Maychuk, MD

Thin-flap LASIK to Increase the Range of Treatments Using the NIDEK EC-5000 CX Excimer Laser

Millicent Grim, MD, MBChB(Pretoria), DTM&H(Wits), MMed(Ophth)(Pretoria) and Rachelle Pablo, OD

Phototherapeutic Keratectomy to Eliminate Postoperative Interface Sheen in Hyperopic LASIK

Millicent Grim, MD, MBChB(Pretoria), DTM&H(Wits), MMed(Ophth)(Pretoria) and Rachelle Pablo, OD

Tangential Topography Corneal Map to Diagnose Laser Treatment Decentration

Paolo Vinciguerra, MD; Alessandro Randazzo, MD; Elena Albè, MD and Daniel Epstein, MD, PhD