
Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.
This month we are going to discuss dry eye disease (DED) around cataract surgery, a topic that has gained increasing momentum since the introduction of premium IOLs. Ophthalmologists are now well aware of the need to diagnose and treat DED before surgery, but postoperative symptomatic dry eye may occur despite preoperative treatment or even in patients who had not previously screened positively