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Not only actors bring golden statuettes from Cannes. A similar one Dr. Stodulka is bringing home from the French town where he lectured on his experience with more than 600 laser cataract surgeries at OSCARS international ophthalmological congress.

Dr. Stodulka received the golden award for the best video in the cathegory of “New intraocular lens for presbyopia treatment”. It is a great success for Gemini Eye Clinic.

GEMINI Eye Clinics newly disposes of the latest femtosecond laser Z6 (Ziemer, Switzerland). The laser is a breakthrough in femtosecond laser technology and in laser eye surgery and is designed to perform even the most complex eye surgeries.

The so called Z6 laser has several unique qualities which differentiate it from other lasers used in modern ophthalmology. The laser produces the most gentle pulses out of all the femtosecond lasers manufactured for eye surgery.
Dr. Stodulka, the head surgeon of GEMINI Eye Clinic, has used the Z6 laser as the first in the world for implantation of Boston-type artificial cornea. Implantation of artificial cornea replaces the very damaged or opaque cornea of the patient and is often the only surgery means which can restore the vision in people who have been blind for many years. The first patient treated by laser-assisted artificial Boston-type cornea implantation was a twenty-four-year old woman from Brno, Czech Republic.

Laser cataract surgeries and laser lens surgeries have been a topic for discussion also within the field of eye medicine in the USA. The American ophthalmologists were very impressed by new VICTUS femtosecond laser platform on which Dr. Stodulka gave a lecture and presentation at the ASCRS meeting of American ophthalmologists in Chicago with the attendance of thousands of eye doctors from all around the world.

In present, dr. Stodulka`s Gemini Eye Clinic has been an eye care facility with the most laser cataract surgeries on the VICTUS femtosecond laser platform world-wide. One of the patients of Dr. Stodulka who were operated by the new method was also the Czech president Vaclav Klaus.

The new laser method for cataract surgeries makes the surgery more gentle, safer and it significantly improves the precision of the surgery steps. The use of laser in cataract surgeries might be seen as a precursor of robotic surgery. In the small eye space, the method means a step forward within the development and technology in the field of eye medicine.

On Tuesday 20th March 2012, Dr. Stodulka performed the one hundredth laser cataract surgery with the VICTUS femtosecond laser platform in Zlin. Gemini Eye Clinic is thus the only eye care facility in the Czech Republic equipped with a laser platform for cataract surgeries. The new laser method for cataract surgeries makes the surgery more gentle, safer and it significantly improves the precision of the surgery steps in comparison with the traditional method.

On Saturday, 10th March 2012, the 4th International Symposium “Advances in diagnosis and treatment of corneal diseases” in Wisła, Poland. Dr. Stodulka, head surgeon of Gemini Eye Clinic, participated actively by giving two lectures. The first one dealing with lamellar corneal transplantation (DMEK).

In his second lecture, Dr. Stodulka shared his experience with a newly introduced method in cataract surgery – femtosecond laser cataract surgery with the VICTUS platform. Gemini Eye Clinic has been the first eye care facility to introduce this surgery in Europe. The program was enriched by a giant slalom skiing in which Dr. Stodulka won the second place and was awarded a silver medal.

The 5th year of Zlin ophthalmology festival, ZOF 2012, was being held on 9th March on the premises of Zlin Congress Center. The conference is designed for Czech and Slovak ophthalmologists and their medical staff who annually come to Zlin in March to share their experience from the daily praxis.

As a part of the conference program there were three live surgeries transmissions from the operation rooms of Gemini Eye Clinic in Zlin – cataract surgery with the VICTUS femtosecond laser platform, refractive lensectomy surgery, and all-laser LASIK surgery performed with femtosecond laser and 6D laser Amaris 750S.

For the first time in the history of the Czech ophthalmology the online transmissions were projected in 3D resolution to about 450 viewers in Zlin Congress Center and to more than 160 viewers worldwide (ie. about 50 university clinics and many private eye care facilities).

Head surgeon of Gemini Eye Clinic Dr. Pavel Stodulka performed today at Gemini Eye Clinic in Zlin first laser cataract surgery in the Czech Republic and in Europe on the femtosecond laser VICTUS platform.

The first person treated was the same patient who 18 years ago underwent laser eye correction – the first LASIK method performed by Dr. Stodulka in the Czech Republic (the patient suffered from high myopia). Today – on Tuesday 7th February 2012 – she has undergone the first laser cataract surgery on the femtosecond laser platform called VICTUS.