Cornea/External Disease News

VILAMOURA, Portugal — At the ESCRS winter meeting, Sarah Zwingelberg, MD, speaks about a study on the incidence of vitreomacular traction following phakic, pseudophakic and triple Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty.

Given that the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute at UC Irvine is a referral center, most of the keratoconus patients we see have already been diagnosed elsewhere, or at least told they are suspected to have keratoconus.

Can someone take a look at the archives and figure out the first time I spouted off about the importance of treating the ocular surface preop and postop?

VILAMOURA, Portugal — At a time when more patients want to minimize the use of spectacles, cataract surgery with implantation of a Vivity IOL is an option in eyes with Fuchs’ dystrophy.

VILAMOURA, Portugal — In a study performed for the first time in vivo, high-resolution OCT elastography showed the potential to become an additional diagnostic and monitoring tool for keratoconus.

VILAMOURA, Portugal — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, Karl G. Stonecipher, MD, speaks about a new machine learning model for the diagnosis and treatment of dry eye.

TAMPA, Fla. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Telling It Like It Is meeting, Elizabeth Yeu, MD, discusses the positive results that the IC-8 Apthera IOL has shown for corneal astigmatism in nondominant eyes.

How important is the nerve supply to the health of the cornea?

Healio spoke with Clark Chang, OD, MSA, MSc, FAAO, FSLS, director of specialty contact lenses at the Cornea Service of Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, about the importance of early diagnosis of neurotrophic keratitis and considerations for treatment.

One of the biggest challenges in dry eye care has always been getting the primary eye care population interested in treating ocular surface disease.