VIDEO: CLEK study data continues to shape keratoconus management
NEW ORLEANS — The CLEK study continues to inform keratoconus management today, from contact lens fitting to understanding patient quality of life, according to Susan J. Gromacki, OD, MS, FAAO, FSLS, at Academy ’23.
Gromacki participated in a panel discussion about how results of the 8-year Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) study and other more recent studies affect practitioners today. The $20 million study was the first National Eye Institute/NIH multicenter, observational study in optometry, she said, noting that as an optometry student she was the only paid employee of CLEK.
“This study was not changing the course of their treatment,” Gromacki, director of contact lens service at First Sight Vision Care in Maryland, said in this Healio video. “It was not impacting how their contact lenses were fit, for example. It was purely just observing these patients as that 8 years went on.”
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