Publications médicales et articles

L'équipe médicale de LASIK MD, dirigée par le Dr Avi Wallerstein, contribue activement à l'avancement de la recherche en chirurgie réfractive et de la cataracte. Les publications ci-dessous présentent des études évaluées par les pairs, des résultats cliniques et des avancées techniques publiés par nos chirurgiens. Les articles sont disponibles dans leur version originale, en anglais.

Publications de 2025

Comment on: “Chord mu and chord alpha as postoperative predictors in multifocal intraocular lens implantation”

Wallerstein A, Ridgway C, Gauvin M.

Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2025;263(1)243–244.

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Which Test Is Best: Evaluation of Traditional and Contemporary Statistical Tests for Analysis of Spherical Equivalent Prediction Error

M Gauvin, A Wallerstein, WJ Whang, K Koh et al.

Am J Ophthalmol. 2025;273:33-42.

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Two-Staged Sequential Management of Post-LASIK Ectasia: Under-Flap Corneal Cross-Linking for Stabilization Followed by Flap Surface Topography-Guided PRK for Visual Optimization

A Wallerstein, B Bellware, M Cohen, P Demers, M Gauvin.

Biomedicines. 2025;13(5):1258.

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Spherical Implantable Collamer Lens With Postoperative Adjunctive LASIK In The Treatment of High Compound Hyperopic Astigmatism

DQ Li, M Gauvin, G Rocha, P Trottier, L Racine, A Wallerstein.

BMC Ophthalmol. 2025;263(1)243–244.

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Quantifying Age-Related Anterior and Posterior Corneal Astigmatism Relationships: Insights for IOL Calculators and Topography-Guided LASIK Protocols

Wallerstein A, Bernstein A, Cohen M, Mimouni M, Gauvin M.

J Refract Surg. 2025;41(6):e520-e531.

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ChatGPT-4o and OpenAI-o1: A Comparative Analysis of Its Accuracy in Refractive Surgery

Wallerstein A, Ramnawaz T, Gauvin M.

J Clin Med. 2025;14(15):5175.

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Topography-guided LASIK With Phorcides Yields Inferior Outcomes Compared to Wavefront-Optimized LASIK

Wallerstein A, Gauvin M.

J Refract Surg. 2025;41(11):e1262.

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Postoperative data leakage in AI-based IOL power prediction formulas: a hidden source of bias

Debellemanière G, Mechleb N, Gauvin M, Wallerstein A, et al.

Exp Eye Research. 2025;262:110700.

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2024

The Impact of Corneal Higher Order Aberrations on the Discrepancy Between Manifest Refractive Astigmatism and Topography-Measured Anterior Corneal Astigmatism in Healthy Candidates 
Wallerstein A, Ridgway C, Gauvin M.
J Refract Surg. 2024;40(9):e677–e678.

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Optimizing IOL Calculators with Deep Learning Prediction of Total Corneal Astigmatism 
Wallerstein A, Fink J, Shah C, Gatinel D, Debellemanière G, Cohen M, Gauvin M.
Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2024; 13(18):5617.

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Impact of the Minimization of Standard Deviation Before Zeroization of the Mean Bias on the Performance of IOL Power Formulas 
Gatinel D, Debellemanière G, Saad A, Brenner A, Gauvin M, Wallerstein A, Malet J. 
Trans. Vis. Sci. Tech. 2024;13(10):22.

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Corneal Epithelial Hyperplasia Related to Chronic Eye Rubbing Mimicking Keratoconus
Pollman A, Cohen M, Jabbour S. 
Eye & Contact Lens. 2024:00; 1-4.

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Comment On: "Intraocular Lens Power Calculation: The Contribution of Angle K and Ocular Biomechanics"
Wallerstein A, Ridgway C, Gauvin M. 
J Cataract Refract Surg. 2024. In Press ahead of print.

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Comment On: “Angle Kappa is not Correlated with Patient-Reported Outcomes After Multifocal Lens Implantation”
Wallerstein A, Ridgway C, Gauvin M. 
Clin Ophthalmol. 2024:18;1379-1380.

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A New Method to Minimize the Standard Deviation and Root Mean Square of the Prediction Error of Single-Optimized IOL Power
Gatinel D, Debellemanière G, Saad A, Rampat A, Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Malet J. 
Trans. Vis. Sci. Tech. 2024;13(6):2.

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The Development of a Thick-Lens Post–Myopic Laser Vision Correction Intraocular Lens Calculation Formula
Debellemanière G, Mechleb N, Bernier T, Ancel JM, Gauvin M, Wallerstein A, Saad A, Gatinel D. 
American Journal of Ophthalmology, June 2024, Vol.262, 40-47.

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Comparison of Higher-Order Corneal Irregularities in Eyes with Oblique, with-the-Rule, and Against-the-Rule Astigmatism
Wallerstein A, Tai P, Gauvin M. 
Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, April 2024, Vol.50, No.4, 428-429. In Press.

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2023

Comment on “Comparison of Refractive and Visual Acuity Results After Contoura® Vision Topography-Guided LASIK Planned with the Phorcides Analytic Engine to Results After Wavefront-Optimized LASIK in Eyes with Oblique Astigmatism”
Wallerstein A, Tai P, Gauvin M. 
PLOS ONE, November 2023, Vol. 17, No. 12.

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Novel Technique to Improve the Efficacy of Corneal Cross Linking in Cases of Post LASIK Ectasia [Letter]
Wallerstein A, Wandzura A , Gauvin M. 
Clinical Ophthalmology, December 2023, Vol.17, 3717-3718.

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Characterization of Postoperative LASIK Ectasia Features on Higher-Order Aberration Excimer Ablation Maps
Wallerstein A, Santhakumaran S, Tabunar L, Cohen M, Gauvin M. 
BMC Ophthalmol. 2023;23:517.

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Angle Kappa Influence on Multifocal IOL Outcomes
Wallerstein A, Ridgway C, Gatinel D, Debellemanière G, Mimouni M, Albert D, Cohen M, Lloyd J, Gauvin M. 
Journal of Refractive Surgery, December 2023, Vol.39, No.12, 840–849.

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Impact of Single Constant Optimization on the Precision of IOL Power Calculation
Gatinel D, Debellemanière G, Saad A, Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Rampat R, Malet J. 
Translational Vision Science & Technology, November 2023, Vol.12, 11.

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What Do Surgeons Mean With The Term "Surgically Induced Astigmatism"?
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M. 
J Refract Surg. 2023;39(8):574.

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A Simplified Method To Minimize Systematic Bias Of Single-Optimized Intraocular Lens Power Calculation Formulas
Gatinel D, Debellemanière G, Saad A, Rampat R, Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Mallet J. 
Am J Ophthalmol. 2023:9394(23)00200-3.

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Toric Trifocal Intraocular Lens For Refractive Lens Exchange: A Multi-Center, Multi-Surgeon Large Cohort Study
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Trottier P, Cohen M, Lloyd J, Racine L, Albert D, Ahmed, I, Mimouni M. 
J Refract Surg. 2023;39(5):302–310.

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Toric Trifocal Intraocular Lens For Refractive Lens Exchange: A Multi-Center, Multi-Surgeon Large Cohort Study
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Trottier P, Cohen M, Lloyd J, Racine L, Albert D, Ahmed, I, Mimouni M. 
J Refract Surg. 2023;39(5):302–310.

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mEYEstro Software: An Automatic Tool For Standard Refractive Surgery Outcomes Reporting
Gauvin M, Wallerstein A. 
BMC Ophthalmology. 2023(1):171.

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Corneal And Whole-Eye Higher Order Aberrations Do Not Correlate With Ocular Residual Astigmatism In Prepresbyopic Refractive Surgery Candidates
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M. 
Cornea. 2023.(published ahead-of-print):10.1097

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Comment On: Diagnosis And Management Of Postrefractive Surgery Ectasia
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M. 
J Cataract Refract Surg. 2023;49(4):448.

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Relative Accuracy Indices For Preoperative Differences In Sphere And Seq Allow For Better Study Comparisons
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M. 
J Refract Surg. 2023;39(4):288.

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2022

Using The First-Eye Back-Calculated Effective Lens Position To Improve Refractive Outcome Of The Second Eye
Mechleb N, Debellemanière G, Gauvin M, Wallerstein A, Saad A, Gatinel D 
Journal of Clinical Medicine 12(1):184, 2022

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Does Adjunctive Under-Flap CXL Reduce Regression For Hyperopic LASIK?
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 38(12):770-779, 2022

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Posterior Corneal Astigmatism Does Not Influence Manifest-Treated Topography-Guided LASIK Outcomes
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 38(12):780–790, 2022

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Does Phorcides Software Yield Inferior Topography-Guided LASIK Accuracy Versus Targeting The Manifest Astigmatism?
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 38(11):750-751, 2022

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Comment On: Clinical Results Of Topography-Guided Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis Using The Anterior Corneal Astigmatism Axis And Manifest Refractive Astigmatism Axis
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M 
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 2022

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Three Year Outcomes Of Under-Flap Stromal Bed CXL For Early Post-LASIK Ectasia
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Rocha G, Sison S, Korban S, Cohen M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 38(8):511-519, 2022

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Hypo-Osmolar Accelerated CXL On Resultant Sub 400um Topography Guided Excimer Regularized Keratoconus Corneas
Salimi A, Gauvin M, Harissi-Dagher M, Racine L, Cohen M, Wallerstein A 
Journal of Cataract Refractive Surgery, 2022

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Astigmatism Treatment Bias In A Topography-Guided Vs Wavefront-Optimized LASIK Meta-Analysis
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 38(2):142-143, 2022

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Publications antérieures

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Does Anterior Corneal Coma Affect Manifest Astigmatism? Virgin Healthy Corneas Differ From Traumatically, Surgically, Or Biomechanically Induced Irregular Corneas With High Coma.
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 37(8):1-2, 2021

The PEARL-DGS Formula: The Development Of An Open-Source Machine Learning-Based Thick IOL Calculation Formula
Debellemanière G, Dubois M, Gauvin M, Wallerstein A, Brenner F, Radhika R, Saad A, Gatinel D 
American Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021

Vector Analysis Reveals That Topography-Guided LASIK Targeting The Manifest Refraction (MR) Is Superior To Topography-Modified Refraction (TMR) And Layer Yolked Reduction Of Astigmatism (LYRA)
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M 
Clinical Ophthalmology 15:889-890, 2021

Keratoconus Features On Corneal Higher-Order Aberration Ablation Maps: Proof-Of-Concept Of A New Diagnostic Modality
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Mimouni M, Racine L, Salimi A, Cohen M 
Clinical Ophthalmology 15:623-633, 2021

Erratum For “The Relationship Between Preoperative Anterior Corneal Higher Order Aberrations And Topography-Guided Excimer Ablation Depth”
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Cohen M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 37(2), 2021

Targeting Anterior Corneal Astigmatism With Topography-Guided Ablation Ignores Ocular Residual Astigmatism, Resulting in Inferior Outcomes
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Cohen M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 36(1):63-65, December 2020

Disagreement Between Theoretical And Actual Phorcides Outcomes: Is Phorcides Inferior To Treating On The Manifest Refraction?
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M 
Clinical Ophthalmology 14:3829-3830, November 2020

Is Phorcides More Likely To Give Better Vision Than Treating The Manifest Refraction?
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M 
Journal of Cataract Refractive Surgery 46(10):1451-1452, 2020

The Relationship Between Anterior Corneal Higher-Order Aberrations And Topography-Guided Excimer Ablation Depth
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Cohen M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 36(8):506-510, June 2020

Re: Ang Et Al.: Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Femtosecond Lasik And Small Incision Lenticule Extraction
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M 
American Academy of Ophthalmology 27:724-730, 2020

Effect Of The Vectorial Difference Between Manifest Refractive Astigmatism And Anterior Corneal Astigmatism On Topography-Guided Lasik Outcomes
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Qi SR, Cohen M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 35(12):754-762, 2020

Refractive, Visual, And Subjective Quality Of Vision Outcomes For Very High Myopia Lasik From −10.00 To −13.50 Diopters
Wallerstein A, Kam JWK, Gauvin M, Adiguzel E, Bashour M, Kalevar A, Cohen M. BMC Ophthalmol. 
BMC Ophthalmology 20(234):1-10, 2020

Topography-Guided Ablation Targeting the Anterior Corneal Astigmatism Yields Interior Outcomes vs Targeting the Manifest Refractive Astigmatism
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Cohen M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 35(12):815-816, December 2019

Effect of Anterior Corneal Higher-Order Aberration Ablation Depth on Primary Topography-Guided LASIK Outcomes
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Cohen M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 35(12):754-762, December 2019

Primary Topography-Guided LASIK: Refractive, Visual, and Subjective Quality of Vision Outcomes for Astigmatism ≥2.00 Diopters
Wallerstein A, Caron-Cantin M, Gauvin M, Adiguzel E, Cohen M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 35(2):78-86, February 2019

Primary Topography-Guided LASIK: Treating Manifest Refractive Astigmatism Versus Topography-Measured Anterior Corneal Astigmatism
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Ruyu Qi S, Bashour M, Cohen M 
Journal of Refractive Surgery 35(1):15-23, January 2019

Management of post-LASIK dry eye: a multicenter randomized comparison of a new multi-ingredient artificial tear to carboxymethylcellulose
Wallerstein A, Jackson WB, Chambers J, Moezzi A, Lin H, Simmons P 
Clinical Ophthalmology 2018(12):839–848, June 2018

Clinically significant laser in situ keratomileusis flap striae
Wallerstein A, Gauvin M, Adiguzel E, Singh H, Gupta V, Harissi-Dagher M, Cohen M 
Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery 43(12):1523–1533, December 2017

Under-Flap Stromal Bed CXL for Early Port-LASIK Ectasia: A Novel Treatment Technique
Wallerstein A, Adiguzel E, Gauvin M, Mohammad-Shahi N, Cohen M 
Clinical Ophthalmology 2017(11):1-8, December 2016

Comparison Of New Multi-Ingredient Lubricant Eye Drop Containing Hyaluronic Acid Vs Carboxymethylcellulose 0.5% For Ocular Dryness Following LASIK Surgery: A Multicenter, Randomized 90 Day Study
Wallerstein A, Jackson WB, Chambers J, Moezzi A, Wiens J, Lin H 
2015 ASCRS Annual Meeting (San Diego, April 2015)

Outcomes of LASIK Enhancement After Primary PRK Regression
Taha M, Adiguzel E, Wallerstein A, Cohen M 
2015 ASCRS Annual Meeting (San Diego, April 2015)

Collagen Crosslinking and Topography-Guided Customized Ablation Treatment For Keratoconus And Post-LASIK Ectasia: Montreal Protocol
Wallerstein A, Adiguzel E, Bower T, Korban S, Cohen M 
2014 ISRS Annual Meeting (Chicago, October 2014)

Very High Astigmatism Outcomes With PRK And LASIK
Liu X, Adiguzel E, Wallerstein A, Cohen M 
XXXII Congress of the ESCRS (London, September 2014)

High Myopia Outcomes With Latest Generation Excimer Laser
Kalevar A, Bashour M, Adiguzel E, Cohen M, Wallerstein A 
XXXI Congress of the ESCRS (Amsterdam, October 2013)

Outcomes of Laser Vision Correction in Myopes With Post-Operative Corneal Curvatures Less Than 37D
An JA, Adiguzel E, Cohen M, Wallerstein A 
2013 Canadian Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting (Montreal, June 2013)

Distribution of Keratoconus Match Index and Keratoconus Match Probabilities in A Normal Refractive surgery Population
Shen Y, AlMahmoud T, Adiguzel E, Cohen M, Wallerstein A 
2013 Congress of the European Society of Ophthalmology (Copenhagen, June 2013)

Incidence, Risk Factor, and Outcomes of LASIK Flap Striae Requiring Flap Re-Lift and Irrigation
Wallerstein A, Cohen M, Harissi-Dagher M, Singh H, Gupta V, Adiguzel E 
2013 ASCRS Annual Meeting (San Francisco, April 2013) 

Photorefractive Keratectomy for Myopia
Helen K Wu, MD and Pierre E Demers, MD, FRCSC 
Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Retina, 2013;27(1):29–44 

Customized Ablation Tool Useful for Re-Treatment
Guttman Krader C, Wallerstein A, Cohen M 
Ophthalmology Times 37(18), September 2012

Customized Ablation Tool Useful for Re-Treatment
Guttman Krader C, Wallerstein A, Cohen M 
Ophthalmology Times 37(18), September 2012

LASIK Surgical Techniques: Tips and Pearls
Cohen M, Wallerstein A 
Techniques in Ophthalmology 1(2):86-91, June 2003

Corneal Biopsy
Demers P 
Techniques in Ophthalmology 1(2):92-97, June 2003

Wavefront-Guided Refractive Surgery
Wallerstein A 
Techniques in Ophthalmology 1(1):17-21, March 2003

Topography-based screening for previous laser in situ keratomileusis to correct myopia
François Destrempes, Isabelle Brunette, Jean Meunier, Mylène Beyrouthy, Pierre Demers, Sameh Fanous, Guy Doyon 
J. Cataract Refract Surg. 2002 Sep;28(9):1644-50

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