Cornea/External Disease News

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome can be a devastating disease in patients who are severely affected — a situation made worse by the current scarcity of treatment options.

A 27-year-old woman was urgently transferred to Tufts Medical Center, from an outside hospital, for painful worsening facial cellulitis and pansinusitis. Her medical history was notable only for frontal bone fracture in 2001.

Dry eye disease doctor friend: “What’s your take on the new dry eye spray?”

ORLANDO — In this Healio Video Perspective, Nicole Bajic, MD, discusses how she handled a case of corneal decompensation that occurred in the middle of a cataract surgery procedure.

ORLANDO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Jack S. Parker, MD, PhD, discusses corneal allogenic intrastromal ring segments (CAIRS).

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2022, Laura M. Periman, MD, discusses some of the factors, including cosmetics and lifestyle, that contribute to ocular surface disease.

The addition of a tumor necrosis factor inhibitor to steroid therapy reduced acute stage disease duration and hospital stay in patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis, according to a study.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2022, Laura M. Periman, MD, discusses superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis and the potential use of neuromodulators to ease patients’ symptoms.

Good morning from Jerusalem! It’s precisely “next year” today.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2022, Greg Kunst, president and CEO of Aurion Biotech, discusses a cell therapy strategy for treating corneal epithelial disease.