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SOME
OF DOCTOR KARICKHOFF’S FIRSTS
IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL EYE CARE
 • First in Washington area to
perform
laser disruption of eye floaters. (2-1-90)
• Inventor of the Karickhoff Keratoscope
(U.S. Patent).
• Inventor of the Anterior Chamber Caliper
(U.S. Patent).
• Discoverer of the cause and surgical
treatment of pigmentary glaucoma.
• Originator of the combined
American-Russian technique of radial
keratotomy incisions (now the most
widely used in the world)
• Originator of the Schiotz-Shove test
(used in myopia surgery).
• Conceived and published nine orginal concepts in
ophthalmology.
• Designer of seven surgical instruments used world-wide.
• First in Northern Virginia to treat acute glaucoma with laser
surgery. (3-2-77)
• First in Northern Virginia to perform outpatient cataract
surgery. (1-14-81)
• First in Virginia to perform surgery for nearsightedness.
(4-15-81)
• First in Northern Virginia to treat chronic glaucoma with
laser surgery. (6-11-81)
• First in Northern Virginia to perform epikeratophakia
(the "living contact lens" operation) (12-10-85)
• First in metropolitan Washington to perform no-stitch
cataract surgery. (2-2-91)
• Author of five articles on refractive surgery.
• Author of 39 articles in national and international eye
journals.
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