VIDEO: STARK: A new cross-linking application to stabilize post-RK corneas
BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective, Emilio Torres-Netto, MD, PhD, shares his experience with selective treatment of astigmatism in radial keratotomy, or STARK, a new application of corneal cross-linking.
“With this form of cross-linking, we selectively apply the energy after a round of [phototherapeutic keratectomy] over the peripheral area of the cornea, and with the effect of the cross-linking, we are able to steepen the central cornea that usually after keratotomy is very flattened,” he said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
Results are promising so far, Torres-Netto said.
STARK, he said, is an example of how cross-linking is becoming a selective, customized procedure with specific applications.
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Torres-Netto E. Selective treatment of astigmatism in post radial keratotomy and corneal scar patients (STARK). Presented at: European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting; Sept. 6-10, 2024; Barcelona, Spain.
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