ELZA-PACE not only improves corneal biomechanics (just like regular CXL) but by flattening the cone significantly, also enhances patients’ visual quality. The results so far indicate that patients treated with this method have better visual outcomes compared to traditional CXL treatments.
ELZA contributed to the recent 2024 SAoO Annual Congress, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, with Prof. Farhad Hafezi giving multiple lectures and co-leading the Refractive Surgery Course.
The newspapers Tages-Anzeiger, Der Bund, and Basler Zeitung published a story on laser eye surgery complications, and featured ELZA’s Medical Director, Prof. Farhad Hafezi as the expert contributor to the article.
Let’s delve into the insightful presentations given by two of ELZA’s finest surgeons during ELZA at Swiss Ophthalmological Society (SSO)’s Swiss Eye Week 2024, highlighting the contributions of ELZA’s Medical Director, Prof. Farhad Hafezi and consultant glaucoma surgeon, Prof. Kaweh Mansouri on Wednesday, January 17th, 2024. The conference was held to educate Switzerland’s up and coming ophthalmology residents, and is a highly anticipated meeting each year. This year, the meeting was held at that Belvédère Strandhotel, Spiez.
The 2nd ELZA Refractive Surgery Course 2023 in Zurich was a nexus of knowledge for FEBOs and advanced residents, providing a comprehensive insight into modern refractive surgery techniques.
Prof. Farhad Hafezi, Medical Director of the ELZA Institute, was an invited speaker at the International meeting of the Jordan Ophthalmological Society (JOS) 2023 earlier
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 Prize at Winter ESCRS, in the Refractive Surgery Section.
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.
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.
