Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bnrmtv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!3comvax!bnrmtv!zarifes From: zarifes@bnrmtv.UUCP (Kenneth Zarifes) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Radial Keratotomy -- WARNING!! -- Message-ID: <203@bnrmtv.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 21:15:20 EST Article-I.D.: bnrmtv.203 Posted: Thu Oct 31 21:15:20 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:32:00 EST Distribution: net Organization: Bell Northern Research, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 22 [] If any of you or anyone you know of is considering having a radial keratotomy you had better wait! Current studies have shown that the eyes of people who have had this operation have been continuing to become more and more hyperopic (far-sighted) as time goes by. There is apparently no stabilization taking place. The resultant far-sightedness may need to then be treated. If you've had this procedure or are considering it, take the following article to your doctor, Archives of Opthamology Vol. 103 June 1985 pp. 782-784 {hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!zarifes --Ken Zarifes -- {hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!zarifes --Ken Zarifes