Dr. Fram was featured in an edition of EyeWorld, offering her top five pearls for managing poorly healing epithelial defects:
- Determine etiology; take a thorough history
- Look at the medications; change topical medications to preservative free
- Use amniotic membrane early in refractory disease
- Evaluate and treat abnormal eyelid anatomy and disease
- Know when a tarsorrhaphy is necessary and act quickly to avoid corneal thinning