Epithelium

NEW YORK — In a presentation at OSN New York, William F. Wiley, MD, discusses the advantages of using SMILE in prior refractive surgery cases and provides insight on specific techniques using surgical footage.

Cross-linking has been a major advance ever since I started doing it 10 to 15 years ago.

WASHINGTON — Ophthalmologists need to look and listen for the cause of persistent epithelial defects, according to a speaker here.

WASHINGTON — Stable and predictable healing of the epithelium is important for achieving positive refractive surgery outcomes, according to a speaker here.

At the virtual European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, A. John Kanellopoulos, MD, speaks about mini-PRK.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this video from Hawaiian Eye, Marjan Farid, MD, discusses different corneal indications for when to use amniotic membrane tissue in the office.

Experiencing the weightlessness of space could compromise the ability of the gut epithelial barrier to keep foreign cells out of the body, according to study results published in Scientific Reports.

Determining the best treatment for a corneal abrasion depends on many factors, such as the severity of the injury and the degree of pain the patient is experiencing. But practitioners also must take into consideration the location of the abrasion, symptoms the patient may be exhibiting and how the incident occurred. “You must consider whether it was simply a scratch or a shearing injury that actually tore the epithelium away from the underlying basement membrane,” said William D. Townsend, OD, in private group practice in Canyon, Texas. “Was it caused by a plant-type material where you have to worry about a fungal infection later?”