VIDEO: More research needed on customized cross-linking
ATHENS, Greece — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS winter meeting, A. John Kanellopoulos, MD, discusses cross-linking protocols for keratoconus.
“We have so many protocols, and which is the best protocol is very difficult to ascertain,” he said.
The Dresden protocol is the only protocol currently approved in the U.S. Many investigators have attempted accelerated protocols with a wide spectrum of fluences.
“The big unknown” is how to customize cross-linking for individual corneas, and some corneas in the long term behave as if they had been over-cross-linked.
“This is where real science has to come in. We should all group together and try to find a solution for this,” Kanellopoulos said.
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