Tag: RK Correction

Unhappy After Premium Cataract Surgery in an RK Eye? Your Lens May Not Need to Be Exchanged You had Radial Keratotomy (RK) years ago. Decades later, cataracts arrived, and you underwent cataract surgery—perhaps choosing a premium lens implant, multifocal IOL, toric lens, PanOptix®, Vivity®, Light Adjustable Lens (LAL), Apthera IC-8®, Symfony®, Crystalens®, Eyhance® or another […]

When RK Patients Speak: A Global Radial Keratotomy Community Built on Experience, Trust and Expertise There is something more powerful about Dr. Gulani that few physicians can claim, patients, fellow eye surgeons, optometrists, eye care providers of all levels, and eye care industry unanimously recognizing him for his performance, compassion and vision for the world. […]

Radial Keratotomy Corrections with LenzOPlastique® Cataract Surgery: Extreme RK, Corneal Scars and Cataracts to 20/20 Vision Patients who underwent Radial Keratotomy (RK) eye surgery decades ago are increasingly facing a new challenge: cataracts developing in eyes whose corneas were permanently altered by RK. Many of these patients begin searching for answers when their vision becomes […]

Radial Keratotomy Cataract Surgery Failure to 20/20: When “Nothing Can Be Done” Is Not the Final Answer For decades, patients who underwent Radial Keratotomy (RK) have lived with one of the most challenging legacies in refractive eye surgery. Many initially enjoyed freedom from glasses, only to experience progressive farsightedness, fluctuating vision, irregular astigmatism, optical distortion, […]

Cataract Surgery Problems Fixed by LaZrPlastique®: Still Seeing Great 15 Years Later A 15-Year LaZrPlastique® Follow-Up—and a Family’s Journey Through Customized Vision Surgery What happens 15 years after LaZrPlastique® laser vision surgery? For one patient returning to Gulani Vision Institute in Jacksonville, Florida, the answer was simple: he was still seeing remarkably well. His story […]

Why “Early Cataracts” in RK Eyes May Be the Most Misunderstood Diagnosis in Ophthalmology The Frustration Most RK Patients Know Too Well For many patients who underwent Radial Keratotomy (RK) in the 1980s and 1990s, the journey decades later often feel like a never-ending search for answers. They describe fluctuating vision, changing glasses prescriptions, increasing […]

Radial Keratotomy (RK) Repair: When You Are Told Nothing More Can Be Done For many Radial Keratotomy (RK) patients, the most difficult part of their journey begins decades after their original surgery. What once promised freedom from glasses may gradually evolve into fluctuating vision, multiple images, glare, halos, starbursts, irregular astigmatism, corneal irregularity, hyperopic drift, […]

Millionth Procedure Milestone for the VISX Star S4™ Excimer Laser The Laser Platform Behind Decades of Laser Vision Correction for Worldwide Patients with “Impossible” Eyes [ In my hands and over 3 decades of experience, I believe the VISX Star S4™ to be the best not only for normal eye Lasik surgery, but for even […]

Radial Keratotomy (RK) Repair: What Patients Say… Even After They Return to Their Referring Surgeons “Dr. Gulani truly is the best radial keratotomy repair eye surgeon in the world who other eye surgeons fly their patients to” – JS; patient of  Gulani Vision Institute. There is a moment in every complex medical journey that matters […]

Wrong Lens Implant After Radial keratotomy? When “Nothing More Can Be Done” … Becomes a Beginning at Gulani Vision Institute A real-world story for patients searching for answers after Radial Keratotomy and cataract/lens implant complications There is a common moment many RK patients know too well. You’ve already had surgery—sometimes more than once. You trusted […]