Cornea/External Diseases

Cross-linking is a unique procedure. As cornea surgeons, we depend on referring doctors to screen for keratoconus, a relatively rare disease.

CHICAGO — Valacyclovir can be beneficial for treating multiple episodes of keratitis or iritis in patients with herpes zoster ophthalmicus, according to a speaker here.

CHICAGO — Patients treated with mirvetuximab require close follow-up with an ophthalmologist due to the potential for corneal toxicity, according to a study.

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.

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, 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.

There has been a sea change in the care of patients with keratoconus in the U.S. since the FDA approval of iLink corneal collagen cross-linking in 2016.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Dan Z. Reinstein, MD, speaks about hyperopic SMILE with the VisuMax 800 excimer laser from Carl Zeiss Meditec.

For quite a few years now, we have been hearing the same stats about the prevalence and characteristics of dry eye disease patients in the U.S.