Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 54-year-old man was referred in late 2014 for a consultation for corneal transplant surgery in the left eye.

A new multicenter trial of the U.S. Crosslinking Study Group showed that corneal cross-linking is effective in improving the maximum keratometry value and corrected and uncorrected distance vision in ...

Young adults now have access to an outpatient procedure that can help prevent progressive vision loss and avoid corneal transplants. The University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center is one of first eye ...

SHERBORN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CXL Ophthalmics, Inc., a clinical-stage company developing a minimally-invasive treatment for keratoconus, today published results of the EpiSmart cross-linking Phase ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avedro, Inc., today marked the one year anniversary of the U.S. commercial availability of Photrexa Viscous ® (riboflavin 5’-phosphate in 20% dextran ophthalmic ...

Myopia, or short-sightedness, is almost twice as common in the US and Europe today than it was 50 years ago. It has also become an important problem in some Eastern Asian countries where it affects as ...

Credit: Glaukos. Epioxa does not require the removal of the corneal epithelium, a step usually required by traditional corneal cross-linking procedures, thereby minimizing pain and recovery time.

The American-European Congress of Ophthalmic Surgery (ACOS) and Avedro (Waltham, Massachusetts) have initiated a Phase III multi-center, randomized, controlled evaluation to study accelerated corneal ...

Editor’s Note: The story originally ran June 29. The Department of Refractive Surgery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center performed its first corneal crosslinking procedure on May 19, ...

Have you noticed a change in your vision that isn’t being corrected with contacts or glasses? It could be a condition known as Keratoconus, a progressive corneal disease that occurs in 1 out of 2000 ...

In patients with keratoconus the cornea of the eye begins to bulge. So-called corneal collagen cross-linking aims to halt this process. In this procedure, the cornea is stiffened through locally ...

The average per-person inflation-adjusted lifetime cost of keratoconus treatment in 2019 was nearly $29,000, with a cumulative economic burden of $3.8 billion, a large retrospective cohort study ...