VIDEO: Customized CAIRS tailors segments to individual patients
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VIENNA — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS meeting, Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, DNB, speaks about her technique for customized corneal allogenic intrastromal ring segments for the treatment of ectatic disorders.
The segments are created from donor corneoscleral tissue and implanted through femtosecond laser-created channels.
With customized corneal allogenic intrastromal ring segments (CAIRS), “you are not just treating a broad phenotype, but also treating subtypes within the phenotype,” she said. The segments are tailored for each individual patient based on keratometry gradient in the different parts of the cornea, pachymetry and refractive error.
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Jacob S. Introduction: What are CAIRS & why do you need them in your surgical armamentarium, what you need to start CAIRS now. Presented at: European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting; Sept. 8-12, 2023; Vienna.
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