Los Angeles Cataract Surgery

World Ophthalmology Congress 2008: Los Angeles Cataract Surgery in Hong Kong!

The World Ophthalmology Congress is a multi-national eye surgery meeting that happens every two years. The last one was in Sao Paolo, Brazil in 2006, where I spoke about doing cataract surgery Los Angeles style — meaning, using the highest quality optics and doing the safest surgery possible. For 2008, the venue was the amazing city of Hong Kong and the meeting drew 10,000 eye surgeons from nearly every country on the planet.

I was one of the dozen or so surgeons worldwide who was chosen to perform a live demonstration surgery on an actual patient. This is done to show the most modern techniques of surgery and the newest surgical technology to all of the ophthalmologists. The operating room is equipped with multiple video cameras, including one that is on the surgeon’s microscope so that the intricate details of the surgery can be observed by all. The surgeon (me) is wired with a microphone and a headset so that the audience members can speak directly with him during the surgery to ask about the technique. It’s not a place for an amateur!

My patient was a very sweet lady who had just one good eye. Her other eye suffered a retinal detachment years prior and didn’t see to well. Her ‘good’ eye now had a cataract and she was selected for the Live Surgery Event. She would receive free surgery from a leading surgeon in exchange for allowing her surgery to be broadcast live to thousands of other surgeons. Sounds like a great deal to me, since the surgeons who were selected for the Live Surgery program were among the very best world-wide.

The machine I used in her surgery was the Bausch & Lomb Stellaris, a phaco-emulsification machine that gently dissolves away the cataract using safe ultra-sound waves and removes it from the eye.

You can see more about this machine at:

http://www.bauschsurgical.com/cataract/default.aspx

On that website, click on the video links and you’ll see that the surgeon chosen to host the interviews is me, Uday Devgan MD of the Maloney Vision Institute in Los Angeles and an Expert Cataract Surgeon.

For this patient, we wanted to deliver a wide range of clear vision without glasses, so the lens implant chosen was the new Crystalens HD (Crystal Lens) — the same lens used when we do top-tier cataract surgery in Los Angeles.

The surgery went beautifully and the patient did great — she recovered a wide range of sharp vision without glasses. This is a picture of her eye the day after the surgery. You can see that it looks completely normal.

I have done Live Surgery events in many other countries, but this one was special — very special. Why? The patient and the wonderful smile she had right after surgery. That says it all.

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Of the thousands of eye doctors in the USA, Bausch & Lomb has chosen only three top ranked doctors to be featured on their Crystalens.com website to be the key opinion leaders and teachers for the other surgeons in the US. You can go to http://www.crystalens.com and click on ‘For Professionals’ to see that Uday Devgan MD of the Maloney Vision Institute in Los Angeles was chosen.

Click here to see these three top-ranked eye doctors selected by Bausch & Lomb:http://www.crystalens.com/newsite/pro/ 

If you would like more information, including a FREE CATARACT BOOK, please call the Maloney Vision Institute at 310-208-3937 or on the web at http://www.MaloneyVision.com

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