VIDEO: Customized CAIRS tailors segments to individual patients

VIENNA — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS meeting, Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, DNB, speaks about her technique for customized corneal allogenic intrastromal ring segments for the treatment of ectatic disorders.
The segments are created from donor corneoscleral tissue and implanted through femtosecond laser-created channels.
With customized corneal allogenic intrastromal ring segments (CAIRS), “you are not just treating a broad phenotype, but also treating subtypes within the phenotype,” she said. The segments are tailored for each individual patient based on

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