13th British Society for Refractive Surgery Conference

This year’s British Society for Refractive Surgery (BSRS) Conference took place on the first hot and steamy weekend of July, and 100 delegates gathered at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, for a jam-packed programme.

The programme kicked off with a talk from

She described how accommodative esotropias can be treated successfully with refractive surgery. Aniseikonia cannot be predicted and contact lens trials should be considered for high anisometropes.

Cyclotorsion in high astigmats is also often found postoperatively. Refraction and topographical mapping both monocularly and binocularly can help prevent these errors. Problems with manifest squints, including microtropia, can be avoided by preventing change in ocular dominance. Density of suppression and size of suppression scotoma should also be considered. For problems with incomitancy, Finlay suggests avoiding swapping fixation.