Mark Hillen

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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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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Cross-Linking in the USA – Part 3: Off-Label applications

Epi-on CXL aims to sidestep epi-off CXL’s issues by leaving the epithelium intact, however, this comes at a price of reduced efficacy – no clinical trial published to date has convincingly shown epi-on CXL to be as effective as epi-off CXL at the most important outcome: stopping keratoconus from progressing.

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