Presenting to the Swiss Optometrists Association (SBAO) Annual Meeting, Hafezi identified the single biggest villain in the development of keratoconus: eye rubbing.
Other vision healthcare professionals regularly refer patients to ELZA who have “challenging corneas”; many are those whose original laser refractive surgery didn’t quite go to plan, and they need re-treatment to fix their vision
Children: to cross-link or not to cross-link? If a person is going to develop keratoconus, that person is more likely to be a child than an adult.
Keratoconus is the progressive thinning of the cornea, and corneal cross-linking (CXL) can successfully treat it.
