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Binkhorst Lecture: Epi-on cross-linking achieves favorable visual results for keratoconus, ectasia
NEW ORLEANS — Patients with keratoconus and corneal ectasia who underwent epi-on cross-linking achieved favorable visual results, according to a speaker here. “We know now [that the epi-on procedure] is effective, produces less pain, provides a much more rapid visual recovery, increases best spectacle corrected visual acuity – which is equivalent to or perhaps better than reported epi-off results – and there’s a much less likelihood of complications with this technique than the classical Dresden technique,” R. Doyle Stulting, MD, PhD, said during the Binkhorst Lecture at the American Society (Read more...)