Béatrice Cochener, MD, PhD

FRANKFURT, Germany — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS winter meeting, Béatrice Cochener-Lamard, MD, PhD, discusses an increasing brighter future for lenticular surgery, now called ReLEx.

In this video from the virtual ESCRS winter meeting, Béatrice Cochener, MD, PhD, discusses advanced technology IOLs for cataract patients with comorbidities such as ocular surface disease, glaucoma, retinal disease or prior ocular surgery.

MARRAKECH, Morocco — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Winter Meeting, Béatrice Cochener-Lamard, MD, immediate past president of the ESCRS, speaks about the many potential applications of artificial intelligence in ophthalmology.

BELGRADE, Serbia – Extended depth of focus IOLs are gaining wide acceptance. At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, ESCRS president Béatrice Cochener, MD, PhD, speaks about their advantages, best indications and drawbacks. 

New technologies and surgical techniques have always stepped timidly into pediatric ophthalmology.

Over the last 2 decades, excimer laser correction of myopia has become a well-established and standardized refractive treatment. Corneal laser strategies for astigmatism and hyperopia followed shortly thereafter, achieving satisfactory outcomes. However, it is not rare to come across people who believe that astigmatism and hyperopia cannot be treated with refractive surgery. This misconception probably originates from the increased difficulty of measuring and managing these two refractive errors as compared with myopia and from the need to use more specific platforms for both measuring and treating them.

Ophthalmologists no longer have to view dry eye contemptuously and be embarrassed by the absence of an explanation and specific treatment for the frequent patient complaint of itching, burning or annoying eye pain. Ophthalmologists once prescribed artificial tears, asserting that nothing serious was behind dry eye symptoms, even if sometimes the symptoms were the source of a true handicap.

The use of femtosecond lasers in cataract surgery means the introduction in our surgical world of a new revolutionary possibility. The word “laser” always sounds like a magical term for patients and supposes access to a high level of accuracy and precision, higher than any mechanical procedure conducted by the hand of a surgeon.

LASIK was designed 20 years ago to compete with and even replace PRK in bilateral surgery due to fast visual recovery and optimal patient comfort, but its use has declined with the occurrence of secondary ectasia. This complication, mostly attributed to an improper indication of a lamellar cut on the fragile cornea, has led to an inversion of indications, with a preference for LASIK in low refractive error and a return to surface ablation for moderate ametropia and/or a cornea with risk factors.