Tag: RK premium lens problems
Poor Vision After Cataract Surgery in an RK Eye? No Need for Lens Exchange

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 […]
Disappointed After Radial Keratotomy? How RK Eyes Are Rebuilt in 2026

Radial Keratotomy Eyes: From a Historical Friendship to a Reconstructive Surgical Discipline Fluctuating vision, glare, starbursts, hyperopia, failed LASIK, failed cataract surgery on RK eyes — RK eyes are not broken. They are misunderstood. Radial keratotomy occupies a unique place in refractive surgery. It represents both one of the boldest surgical innovations of the late […]
