Cornea/External Disease News

The FDA cleared the Epithelial Thickness Module for the Anterion cornea app from Heidelberg Engineering, according to a press release.

Happy New Year! How was your holiday season?

Most eye care professionals don’t think a lot about corneal sensation. We assume it is similar for most patients, and yet that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Neurotrophic keratitis is well explored in the cover story of this issue of Healio | OSN.

The staging system used for neurotrophic keratopathy, or NK, is the Mackie classification from 1995 with recent modifications by Dua, which clusters a number of distinct and sometimes nonsequential phases of NK into three broad categories.

Neurotrophic keratitis is historically a rare disease, but now that more understanding has been gained of the underlying etiology and manifestations, its prevalence is starting to increase, and more cases are seen in clinics.

Iris repair surgeries have been widely described in the literature.

Innovations within the cornea realm are flourishing. In this article, I review emerging technologies to treat corneal diseases.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Sheri Rowen, MD, of NVISION Eye Centers, discusses the link between dry eye disease and menopause.