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Zeiss Medical Technology (ZMT) has announced that its MEL® 90 ophthalmology system has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), giving the excimer laser technology ...

Used for sphero-cylindrical (SCA) corrections, MEL 90 has been approved for the treatment of myopia, hyperopia, and mixed astigmatism, a condition whereby hyperopic and myopic correction is required.

One 2018 review estimated that the prevalence of astigmatism in World Health Organization regions is 40.4 percent in adults and 14.9 percent in children, although this varied between regions.

Astigmatism often makes your eyesight fuzzy both at a distance and up close. You can look at letters on a chart to see how sharp your vision is. Online tests often use the “Tumbling E” method.

The excimer laser complements the ZEISS VISUMAX 800 with ZEISS SMILE pro, extending ZEISS' LVC market leadership with treatment for myopia, hyperopia, and mixed astigmatism. "The increasing global ...

After adjusting for sociodemographic factors, parental astigmatism, and child myopia, the pandemic was associated with a 20% increase in the risk of refractive astigmatism (OR 1.20, 95% CI 1.09-1. ...