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  Law office suspects heart procedures leave post-LASIKs blind
 Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:24 pm

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  This letter was received from a law office:

Quote:
To Whom It May Concern:

Will you please look into complications that arise when LASIK patients
receive future medical treatment.

We have a law office. In one recent week, the office received two
separate calls from individuals from two different states who received
medical treatment in separate local hospitals. Both received different
forms of emergency cardiac treatment. The result was the same. They
each became blind as a result of the cardiac treatment.

It was explained to each of the patients that the LASIK procedure put
them at risk for blindness in cardiac treatment because they are
sensitive to pressure.

It is doubtful that perhaps younger patients who may currently be free
of heart disease would receive the LASIK procedure if they knew it may
leave them blind when receiving life saving emergency cardiac
treatment. It is concerning because heart disease has been the leading
cause of death in the US for over 80 years and a major cause of
disability. Add LASIK to the equation during heart disease treatment
and the results could be dangerous. What other health problems risk
blindness due to common treatment plans?

Please investigate the correlation between LASIK blindness induced
during future treatment of other health problems.

Sincerely,

Denise

Denise, it is well known that patients who have had LASIK are more
sucsceptible to impaired vision from improper lens power calculation
for cataract surgery - and are also susceptible to blindness as a
result of undiagnosed glaucoma.

The trauma of LASIK due to the suction ring and possibly shock waves
from the laser can cause retinal and optic nerve damage, which could
result in retinal detachment and blindness due to trauma years later.

One wonders what happens to metal fragments which are commonly left
under the LASIK flap from the microkeratome when a patient receives
electrical stimulation to re-start the heart. One also wonders if
these metal fragments would damage the eye if a LASIK patient with
metal microkeratome debris would have an MRI.

The fragile LASIK flap never really heals to underlying stroma and can
be dislodged easily for life... rendering patients vulnerable to
vision loss through traumatic flap dislocation and/or amputation.

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