Lasik for MS patients

Lasik may build Intraocular pressure in MS patients
Some doctors are concerned that the increase in IOP during Lasik, All-Laser Lasik, and Epi-Lasik may be more problematic in MS patients. These doctors prefer LASEK, PRK, CK, RLE, P-IOL, or other procedures that do not require an increase in intraocular pressure.

The concern with Lasik and similar refractive surgery is that the body may respond to the surgical manipulation of the cornea in unexpected ways. Unexpected and unwanted responses are not consistent from disorder to disorder, nor are they consistent from patient to patient with the same disorder.

Although the FDA lists autoimmune disorders as a contraindication for laser eye surgery, doctors may perform the procedure if in their medical opinion the surgery is appropriate.If you have an autoimmune disorder you need to discuss this in detail with any prospective refractive surgeon, plus with your primary care physician and neurologist.

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http://www.usaeyes.org/lasik/faq/lasik-multiple-sclerosis.htm


Night Vision Problems Caused By LASIK Eye Surgery
According to research studies conducted in recent years, several patients who underwent LASIK reported problems seeing at night. The induced night vision defects included halos, starbursts and glare around brightly lit objects at night. These night vision problems signify deterioration in quality rather than quantity of vision. Though these night vision problems are typically transient and wear off in a few days, in some patients, the symptoms might persist long after the eye heals.

http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/4088/1/Night-Vision-Problems-Caused-By-LASIK-Eye-Surgery.html

LASIK, which stands for laser in situ keratomileusis, was introduced in the mid-nineties and has largely replaced the older photorefractive keratectomy procedure, better known as PRK. Unlike PRK, where the surface layer of the cornea is scraped away to allow the reshaping of the underlying cornea, with LASIK a flap is made in the top cornea layer to permit access to the underlying cornea. LASIK avoids most of the problems of corneal haze, postoperative pain and slow rehabilitation seen in PRK, but complications are sometimes associated with the flap.

In LASEK (laser epithelial keratomileusis), the surface cornea layer is treated with alcohol and then peeled back to permit reshaping of the underlying layer. It avoids all flap-related complications associated with LASIK, and has less postoperative pain and faster recovery than PRK.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/59689.php