BARCELONA — At the EuCornea meeting, Sonia Yoo, MD, discusses indications, techniques and limitations of femtosecond laser-assisted anterior lamellar keratoplasty.
Crosslinking studied as alternative to antibiotic treatment for infectious keratitis
BARCELONA — Photoactivated chromophore for keratitis, a crosslinking technique specifically aimed at treating infectious keratitis, is showing promising results and could be a valid alternative to antibiotics at a time when resistance is an alarming concern, according to a speaker. “PACK-CXL crosslinking dates back to 2007, when our group realized that CXL could treat corneal infections. One of the key elements in our discovery was solar disinfection, propagated by WHO as a means to make water drinkable,” Farhad Hafezi, MD, PhD, said at the EuCornea Congress preceding the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
VIDEO: Speaker discusses 5-year graft survival on DMEK
BARCELONA — At the EuCornea meeting here, Marianne Price, MD, PhD, presents data on graft survival rate over 5 years following Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty.
PodMed: A Medical News Roundup From Johns Hopkins (with audio)
(MedPage Today) — This weeks topics include treatment of Chagas disease, whether tired surgeons make more mistakes, sleep and common colds, and management of chronic sinusitis
D.C. Week: HHS Seeks to End Discrimination for Transgender People
(MedPage Today) — The ACP protests plans to deport undocumented immigrants
Optovue Showcases Retinal Blood Flow Measurement Capability for Improving Management of Diabetes-Related Vision Loss
FREMONT, Calif. & BARCELONA, Spain–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Optovue, the global leader in the development and commercialization of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), today announced AngioAnalytics™, a significant expansion of its OCTA technology, at the 33rd congress of the European Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS) being held in Barcelona, Spain from September 5-9. This new capability will provide clinicians with the ability to quantify the density of blood flow in the