VIDEO: Look at keratoconus as a ‘disease of a lifetime’
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INDIANAPOLIS — Although early detection of keratoconus is critical, it is also important to understand how to manage later-onset or progressive disease in older patients, according to a lecture at Academy 2024.
“It truly is a disease of a lifetime, and we don’t tend to think about our patients and how their visual and even surgical needs may change,” Clark Chang, OD, MSA, MSc, FAAO, FSLS, of the corneal service at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, said in this Healio video.
During his lecture, Chang provided examples of older patients who continued to progress, as well as modifications optometrists can make to exams for this patient population.
“Make sure you know the location of thinning [and] the location of scar because you don’t want the incision to go through those locations,” Chang said.
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Chang C, et al. Keratoconus: A disease of a lifetime. Presented at Academy 2024; Nov. 6-9, 2024; Indianapolis.
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