Corneal Disease

LAS VEGAS – In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Rahul Pandit, MD, discusses the prospects of the HRT3 Rostock Cornea Module (Heidelberg Engineering), an in vivo corneal confocal microscope.

When surgeons must optimize a patient’s irregular cornea before cataract surgery, it is critical that they have a thorough and detailed conversation about the procedure and the ultimate visual outcomes that can be expected.

This is the first installment in a blog series on the implications of the complex cornea on cataract surgery and how to identify these patients preoperatively.

The regenerative capacity of stem cells has been of great interest in every field of medicine.

A 45-year-old woman presented to the New England Eye Center comprehensive ophthalmology clinic for evaluation of gradually worsening blurry vision in both eyes over the past 1 to 2 years.

At the virtual European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Martin Dirisamer, MD, PhD, speaks about femtosecond laser treatment of Fuchs’ endothelial dystrophy without a graft.

Gene therapy for corneal disease holds promise but still has limitations, according to one speaker at the virtual EuCornea congress.

In this video, Jesper Hjortdal, MD, PhD, EuCornea president, speaks about some of the most promising developments in cornea, specifically cell-based surface regeneration and genetic diagnosis and therapy of corneal disease.

As the days drag on for many of us sheltering at home, there is plenty of time for us to consider our personal role in this pandemic as well as that of our profession.

by Katie Greiner, OD, MS, MBA, FAAO