Cornea/External Disease News

KOLOA, Hawaii — The use of topical 5-fluorouracil remains an option for treating some corneal tumors, Beeran B. Meghpara, MD, said at Hawaiian Eye 2023.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2023, Elizabeth Yeu, MD, discusses considerations for choosing the appropriate lens implant for cataract patients with corneal comorbidities.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2023, Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, previews the advantages of a new topical anesthetic.

KOLOA, Hawaii — Specialists must be thorough in their examinations of patients with dry eye symptoms in order to catch dry eye masqueraders, according to a presenter here.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2023, Kenneth A. Beckman, MD, FACS, discusses the Light Adjustable Lens and its benefits in patients with compromised corneas.

Wow! That was weird. As always, I am writing this many weeks before you will see it, and this is the first time I wrote “2023.”

This case went south when posterior capsular rupture occurred.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective at OSN New York, Carey Kelson and John Steenbakkers discuss Trukera Medical’s recently launched ScoutPro osmolarity system.

A 26-year-old woman was referred to the New England Eye Center Cornea Department for evaluation of a cystic iris lesion noted on routine exam. She was asymptomatic at the time of the visit.

My personal strategy for visual rehabilitation in patients with keratoconus is a wonderful sterile allograft inlay, the KeraNatural, developed by the Lions VisionGift eye bank in the U.S.