Technological innovation and rigorous scientific inquiry highlighted in winning posters

This year’s winners in the ESCRS Poster Competition covered a wide range of topics and included investigations into some of the more mysterious aspects of vision as well as updates on some of the newest cataract and refractive surgery technologies.

First Prize in the Cataract Category went to Shogo Tsuruoka, Japan, for his poster “Monovision using plus and minus spherical aberration values”. The presentation described a study which used vision simulation techniques to examine the ways in which the increased depth of field afforded by spherical aberration might influence monovision.

Second Prize in the Cataract Category went to Jia Yu Ng, UK, for “Surgically induced astigmatism after co-axial and bi-axial cataract surgery”. Third Prize went to Chul Young Choi, South Korea for “Scanning transmission electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectroscopy study of sunflower cataract in Wilson’s disease”.

First Prize in the Refractive Category went to Jorge Alió MD, Spain, for “Outcomes of AcrySof Cachet phakic lens during a five-year follow-up”. His poster reviewed the findings of a retrospective, observational study including a total of 115 eyes of 75 consecutive patients with moderate to high myopia who underwent implantation of an AcrySof Cachet phakic IOL.

Second prize in the Refractive Category went to Alper Agca,Turkey, for “The evaluation of corneal subbasalnerve regeneration with in vivo confocal microscopy in patients whom FS-LASIK or SMILE was performed”.

Third Prize in the category was awarded to Robert Montés-Micó, Spain, for his poster, “Prevalence of cataract after implantable collamer lens for high to low myopia”.