Biography
Biography: Samer Hamada
Abstract
Keratoconus is an aggressive and progressive disease in younger patients. There is very little known about keratoconus in children. In my presentation, I will show how keratoconus is a childhood disease. I will go through diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment options. I will discuss in details our results in keratoconus in children where we have cross linked more than 60 children with progressive keratoconus. Large proportions of these children are younger than 12 years. I will discuss in details interesting corneal topography findings, methods of diagnosing the disease in small children and epithelial-off off versus epithelial-off on crosslinking in children. Special precautions are essential in treating children which will be highlighted as well.