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Recommendations: Boston KPro Follow-up

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Advances in postoperative care have greatly improved the clinical success of the Boston KPro. Common complications such as inflammation and infection are significantly lower with today’s prophylactic drug regimens. Innovative devices have also improved postoperative management of KPro. Soft contact...

Benchmark Protocols for Managing Eye Trauma

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Epidemiology The annual incidence of open-globe injuries worldwide is estimated to be 203,000 cases. Overall, males comprise approximately 80 percent of open-globe injuries. Males age 10 to 30 are at greatest risk. The chance of blunt globe rupture also increases after some types of ocular surgical...

Schepens pioneer dies at age 95

News: September 23, 2015
Endre A. Balazs, a pioneer in viscoelastic therapeutics and a leader in hyaluronan and vitreous research, passed away on August 29th at the age of 95. Dr. Balazs had a central role in establishing what is now Schepens Eye Research Institute, and was awarded the Institute's Distinguished Alumnus...

Eye Insights Issue 3: The Boston KPro

News: September 30, 2015
The September 2015 issue of Eye Insights™, a clinical advisory newsletter published by Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, is now available. This issue focuses on the Boston KPro, specifically on how to manage complications associated with implantation, postoperative...

Evangelos Gragoudas, MD, Presents Gass Lecture

News: October 08, 2015
Evangelos Gragoudas, MD, presented the J. Donald M. Gass lecture at the Retina Society Annual Meeting in Paris, France on October 8, 2015. A pioneer and a world authority on the diagnosis and management of intraocular tumors and retinal disease, Dr. Gragoudas and colleagues developed the use of...

Joan W. Miller, MD, FARVO Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

News: October 19, 2015
BOSTON (October 19, 2015) -- Joan Whitten Miller, MD, Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been elected to membership in the prestigious...

Clifford Kim Receives RPB Award

News: December 16, 2015
Clifford Kim received the RPB Medical Student Fellowship in the amount of $30,000 over one year. This award allows gifted medical students to devote time to the pursuit of a research project. Further Reading: Mass. Eye and Ear Press Release

Mass. Eye and Ear in Boston Magazine

News: December 17, 2015
Mass. Eye and Ear was included in Boston Magazine's "Boston Hospitals with N iche Specialties," as the only hospital with a 24/7 eye emergency room in New England. See the full article in Boston Magazine.