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Which is stronger? PRK or SMILE?

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.

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Mark Hillen October 8, 2019

Best Poster Prize at ESCRS is awarded to Emilio Torres-Netto

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.

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Mark Hillen September 20, 2019

ELZA at ESCRS 2019: a record 21 presentations

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).

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Mark Hillen September 13, 2019

MEACO: ELZA goes to Jordan

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.

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Mark Hillen September 5, 2019

Podium Power: Farhad Hafezi in Zagreb

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.

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Mark Hillen August 20, 2019

Why I’m a Frequent Flyer

I fly. A lot. To educate, to inform, to train scientists and surgeons in the latest advances in cross-linking. Yes, I worry about my carbon footprint. Yes, I miss my family when I’m gone. But it’s important that it’s done, and I explain in this blog post exactly why that’s true.

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Prof. Farhad Hafezi June 11, 2019

Why do we offer observerships at ELZA?

ELZA takes observerships seriously. When we offer somebody an observership placement, we’ll plan that person’s time carefully to give them the maximum exposure to the clinical, scientific and administrative aspects of the clinic.

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Prof. Farhad Hafezi April 16, 2019
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