In this issue of Healio | OSN, a roundtable discusses the management of epithelial ingrowth after LASIK, neurotrophic keratitis and Demodex blepharitis with marginal keratitis.
A few thoughts after decades of treating these often challenging patients.
Epithelial ingrowth is rare after primary LASIK with an incidence of less than 1%, looking at multiple published series. Unfortunately, epithelial ingrowth is much more common after flap lift LASIK enhancements, and once epithelial ingrowth occurs, it is extremely high following flap lift treatments. Flap lift enhancements in the first year after