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DMEK, DSAEK and Some Bad Genes On Spotlight at ESCRS 2022
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year ago the misty dawn broke over Amsterdam’s cold canals and delegates made their way to one of Europe’s most significant ophthalmology events, fewer in number than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday, as the scorching sun broke over Milan, Italy’s capital of fashion and finance, a flood of ophthalmologists, optometrists and more came to attend the 40th Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS 2022), coming from all over the continent and further abroad. The European ocular healthcare community was back in full force once again. Before the first day’s main symposium, Emerging Treatment Options for Corneal Endothelial Disease got underway, a number of slides were projected on the screen, highlighting
the work the ESCRS has done to support Ukrainian medical workers during the invasion of their country by Russia. Ukrainians have been a notable in-person presence at this year’s event with many of them wearing their national costume the vyshyvanka. The ESCRS’s assistance is laudable and a reminder of how we can all help Ukraine at this time. One of the symposium’s highlights was a debate over which was the better technique; Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) versus Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK). Team DMEK was represented by Dr. Jose Güell, associate professor of ophthalmology at Autonoma University (Barcelona, Spain). Cont. on Page 3 >>