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From: zarifes@bnrmtv.UUCP (Kenneth Zarifes)
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Subject: Radial Keratotomy -- WARNING!! --
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 21:15:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 21:15:20 1985
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   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

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{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!zarifes          --Ken Zarifes