Cornea/External Disease News

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Eyecelerator@AAO, Rob Sambursky, MD, president of Verséa Ophthalmics, discusses the company’s offerings for ocular wound healing and ocular surface diseases.

BARCELONA, Spain — One-year results with the second-generation ELZA-sub400 protocol for corneal cross-linking showed efficacy in halting keratoconus progression in ultrathin corneas, according to a study presented here.

BARCELONA, Spain — Optimizing the use of donor tissue through hemi- and quarter-Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty can maximize the number of transplants per donor, according to a speaker here.

Pterygium is a degenerative condition of the ocular surface. The growth is known to cause issues such as visual blur or recurrent inflammation. It can also induce astigmatism and corneal aberrations.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Jorge L. Alió del Barrio, MD, PhD, speaks about an AI-based project for the automated early diagnosis of keratoconus.

Aldeyra Therapeutics has resubmitted a new drug application for topical reproxalap for the treatment of signs and symptoms of dry eye disease, the company announced in a press release.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, DNB, discusses custom-shaped CAIRS for the treatment of keratoconus.

The corneal nerve parameters of patients with multiple sclerosis could be used to evaluate and monitor the stages of the disease, according to a poster presented at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth, shares his experience with pinhole pupilloplasty.

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.