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This month’s issue of Ophthalmology Times Europe saw the publication of a review article, “The pathophysiology and pathomorphology of corneal ectasia” authored by Prof. Hafezi, Medical Director of the ELZA Institute, and Dr. Omid Kermani, Managing Director at Augenklinik am Neumarkt in Cologne.
Newsflash: CXL reimbursed in Switzerland Exactly 20 years after the clinical introduction of cross-linking and after more than 2,000 scientific publications on the subject, corneal cross-linking (CXL) for the treatment of progressive keratoconus has now been included in the Swiss healthcare reimbursement system (the “krankenkasse”).
Prof. Farhad Hafezi was recently profiled in the Swiss newspaper, Limmattaler Zeitung, in which he discussed everything from his pioneering research into corneal cross-linking (CXL), how he has spent the last two decades improving CXL to better treat not just keratoconus, but infections of the cornea too – in a way that doesn’t require antibiotics or antifungal drugs to kill the infectious organisms.
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