To hear the radio story featuring Professor Sutton, click on the image above to be taken to the PM site.

ABC Radio reports: huge cuts to NSW cornea transplant waiting list.

ABC Reporter Kumi Taguchi reports on PM: “Waiting lists for corneal transplants have been virtually eliminated in New South Wales because of a new method in storing donated tissue.”

To hear the story, featuring Professor Gerard Sutton, click here or on the image to the left.

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“Who would have thought that just by having cataract surgery, patients with Alzheimer’s would not only improve their vision, but also their lives?”

A recent article in the International Business Times outlines the positive affects that cataract surgery can have on Alzheimer patients.

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Dr Sutton shares:

“A recent LASIK article from the US Navy Refractive Surgery Centre in Portsmouth Virginia reported on the visual outcomes in naval aviators(pilots). These armed forces personnel have extremely high visual needs and expectations. The study involved 548 eyes who underwent LASIK with the femtosecond laser. 98.3% of all short –sighted patients achieved a visual acuity of 6/6 (20/20). 95.6% believed that LASIK had helped their effectiveness as naval aviators and 99.6% would recommend the same treatment to other aviators.”

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Vision Eye Institute Chatswood recently performed surgery on their 80,000th patient. This is her story.
The patient is a 37 year old designer. She came to our practice in December seeking refractive surgery. As an extreme myope of around -10Ds in both eyes her options were limited.
Generally the upper limit of LASIK is considered about -8Ds – this is because of a couple of reasons.

Firstly, at this high level you must…

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Am article in the 26th of April edition of mivision quotes Professor Gerard Sutton: A new way of holding corneas that allows them to be kept for up to 28 days has effectively abolished waiting lists for cornea transplants in New South Wales.

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In a 2013 edition of Molecular Vision, Professor Gerard Sutton shares his findings: ‘Tear levels of SFRP1 are significantly reduced in keratoconus patients.’ To read the article in full, click on the image to the left or click here.

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In a 2012 edition of ‘Current Opinion’, Professor Gerard Sutton shares his findings on the subject of ‘Femtosecond cataract surgery: transitioning to laser cataract’.

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Professor Sutton recently featured in an article in the Sunday Sun Herald about recent advances in storing donor corneas, effectively abolishing waiting times in NSW. 

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A case report in Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology ‘Femtosecond laser cataract surgery in phacovitrectomy’ – Dr Dr Gerard Sutton

To read the article ‘Averting and treating post-LASIK dry eye’ by Dr Gerard Sutton, click on image above.

Dr Gerard Sutton writes in the December 2012 edition of Optometry Pharma on LASIK laser eye surgery and post procedure dry eye.