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Liver disease claims life of LASIK pioneer, 39

Greenwich, CT-As a child and Azerbaijani immigrant, Vadim Filatov, MD, was a victorious chess champion. He rose from poverty, studied at Yale and Harvard, and became an enterprising ophthalmologist who was among the first to offer LASIK in the Greenwich area.

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