CXL at the Slit Lamp at ESCRS 2019
Farhad Hafezi was interviewed during ESCRS 2019, held in Paris, France, by Touch Medical Media on how CXL is performed at the slit lamp.
Mark Hillen
October 24, 2019
Farhad Hafezi was interviewed during ESCRS 2019, held in Paris, France, by Touch Medical Media on how CXL is performed at the slit lamp.
Prof. Farhad Hafezi, Medical Director of the ELZA Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, had the honor of delivering the prestigious Whitney G Sampson lecture on Sunday, October 13th, 2019 at the annual conference of American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) in San Francisco, California.
The annual meeting of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) was held in Paris between 14–18 September 2019, and ELZA’s surgeons and researchers presented a record 21 presentations during the congress – so what did ELZA at ESCRS manage to achieve? Our team presented at 8 free paper presentations and a further 8 instructional courses, as well as three moderated poster sessions, two e-posters (as well as instructing in 1 wet lab too).
A lot has been said about SMILE, some of which has been about how, in theory, corneas treated with SMILE should be biomechanically stronger than LASIK-treated corneas (more of the stronger anterior stroma is left intact compared with physically cutting a flap there in LASIK and lifting it to perform ablation of the stroma underneath). But what about PRK? This is ablation of the anterior stroma after having just removed the epithelial cells above it, on the surface of the cornea. So the question remains: which is stronger? PRK or SMILE? The short answer is that PRK is stronger.
ELZA founder Prof. Farhad Hafezi was one of two international guest speakers at the 31st Biennial Harvard Cornea Conference at the Schepens Eye Research Center at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Emilio Torres-Netto’s moderated poster presentation “Stromal bed smoothness after excimer laser surface ablation as a key element for the expression of inflammatory genes”, which won the Best Poster Presentation Prize in the Refractive Surgery Section. Over 1000 posters were submitted to ESCRS; Torres-Netto et al.’s was considered to be the best.
The annual meeting of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) was held in Paris between 14–18 September 2019, and ELZA’s surgeons and researchers presented a record 21 presentations during the congress – so what did ELZA at ESCRS manage to achieve? Our team presented at 8 free paper presentations and a further 8 instructional courses, as well as three moderated poster sessions, two e-posters (as well as instructing in 1 wet lab too).
I was honoured to be invited to give a series of talks during this year’s MEACO congress, held in the Hilton Dead Sea & Spa Hotel in Amman, Jordan, where I reviewed the latest thinking in cross-linking and presented the latest clinical and laboratory research work from our research group and our collaborators.
ELZA’s medical director, Prof. Dr. Farhad Hafezi was invited to be the guest lecturer at the Croatian Ophthalmology and Optometric Society’s Contact Lens course, where he presented the latest corneal cross-linking (CXL) research and reviewed current best clinical practice for the treatment of keratoconus and iatrogenic ectasia.
“For most people, seeing a “cone” for the first time is quite surprising. They ask: How can the eye of someone be that shape? What
