VILAMOURA, Portugal — At the ESCRS winter meeting, Marie-José Tassignon, MD, PhD, speaks about the challenges of pediatric cataract surgery.
She explains why infants should not be operated before 2 months of age, which is the limit in her country, Belgium, as well as in Sweden. Training in pediatric cataract surgery is also a challenge, and wet labs like the one held at this meeting are a useful opportunity.
Finally, she speaks about her bag-in-the-lens technique, which reduces the incidence of secondary cataract, the No. 1 complication in pediatric cataract (Read more...)