Cornea Specialist Ashley Behrens MD Reviews His Observations at the 2007 AAO Meeting
Ashley Behrens, MD of the Wilmer Eye Institute is interviewed at this years AAO meeting by OphthalmologyWeb's Refractive Editor David Goldman, MD. Dr. Behrens describes the meeting's highlights and his most important take home messages. Key among them are; the photodynamic cross-linking of corneal collagen with riboflavin and UVA for keratoconus patients and post-lasik ectasia cases, future implications of this technology, DSEK v. DLEK, DSEK complications such as dislocation, the use of glides and viscoelastics in the insertion of donor tissue, pterygium surgery techniques that result in reduced recurrence rates.