Preferred Practice Pattern® guidelines are developed by the Academy's H. Dunbar Hoskins
Jr., MD Center for Quality Eye Care without any external financial support. Authors and …

The use of femtosecond lasers has created an evolution in modern corneal and refractive
surgery. With accuracy, safety, and repeatability, eye surgeons can utilize the femtosecond …

Importance An ongoing global monkeypox virus outbreak in 2022 includes the US and other
nonendemic countries. Monkeypox ophthalmic manifestations may present to the …

Purpose.: The mechanical properties of corneal tissue are linked to prevalent ocular
diseases and therapeutic procedures. Brillouin microscopy is a novel optical technology that …

Purpose.: Corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) is designed to halt the progression of
keratoconus and corneal ectasia by inducing corneal stiffening. However, it currently is …

Objective To study the safety and efficacy of topical bevacizumab in the treatment of corneal
neovascularization (NV). Design In a prospective, open-label, noncomparative study, 10 …

Purpose.: Loss of corneal strength is a central feature of keratoconus progression. However,
it is currently difficult to measure corneal mechanical changes noninvasively. The objective …

A novel method to photocrosslink silk fibroin protein is reported, using riboflavin (vitamin B2)
as a photoinitiator and the mechanism of crosslinking is determined. Exposure of riboflavin …

Methods| The study recruited 6 volunteers with normal corneas (mean [SD] age, 37 [15]
years) and 5 patients with advanced keratoconus (mean [SD] age, 43 [7] years). All …

Down syndrome (DS, trisomy 21) is the most common chromosomal disorder and the
leading genetic cause of intellectual disability in humans. In DS, triplication of chromosome …