JCRS CME Quiz Quiz must be completed individually and answers based on personal knowledge gained from reading the selected articles. On the answer sheet , please write in the letter corresponding to the most correct answer. It is not necessary to return the printed quiz. All patients who required explantation were more myopic and had thicker ICR segments than are presently FDA-approved. All patients who required explantation had complications during the initial implantation of ICR segments.
All patients can expect to revert to their preoperative refractions once ICRs are explanted.
Patients with high myopia have a higher incidence of retained astigmatism post-explantation. All wounds should be closed with a 10-0 nylon suture to prevent astigmatism. None of the above is true. Patients who fail visual recovery from Intacs should likely not have any other refractive procedure. Outcome of corneal and laser astigmatic axis alignment in photoastigmatic refractive keratectomy Samir G. Farah, MD, Eric Olafsson, David G. Gwynn, MD , Dimitri T. Azar, MD, Frederick S. Brightbill, MD 4.