Do You Suspect TASS?

Report suspicious cases to Nick Mamalis, MD, of the University of Utah's Intermountain Ocular Research Center at nick.mamalis@hsc.utah.edu or (801) 581-6586, or the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Health Care Quality Promotion at (800) 893-0485.

We're in the midst of the second national Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome outbreak in six months, as surgical centers across North America struggle to deal with the serious and potentially irreversible eye injury that results when a noninfectious toxic agent enters the anterior segment during surgery and causes an inflammatory reaction.