Session
IC-312 Customized Refractive and Therapeutic Ablations in Regular and Irregular Eyes: a Didactic and Live Treatment-Designing Course
April 2026
Meeting: 2026 ASCRS Annual Meeting
Course Instructor: Despoina Karadimou, MD
Co-Instructors: A. John Kanellopoulos, MD, ABO; Gregory J Pamel, MD, ABO; Edward E. Manche, MD, ABO; Filippos Vingopoulos, MD
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Course Description
Didactic approach to topo-guided,wavefront-guided and ray-tracing ablations design options in multiple clinical cases that may benefit from a customized approach.Laser-vision correction candidates to irregular corneas/ectasia, previous keratorefractive laser and/or incisional procedures,but also trauma and infection-related corneal scarring: Topography,Scheimpflug and OCT tomography, Wavefront analysis as well as epithelial mapping are discussed.
 
Educational Objective
become familiar in depth, with several options in customized ablations used for both naïve refractive candidate cases, but also in a therapeutic context, through a broad spectrum of simple to complex cases, as well as the outcomes assessment and potential complications management.
2026 ASCRS Annual Meeting Instructional Courses

This 1.5 hour Instructional Course was recorded at the 2026 ASCRS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.