Kirk H. Packo, MD

Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

1. A placebo-controlled trial of microplasmin intravitreous injection to facilitate posterior vitreous detachment before vitrectomy
   Benz MS, Packo KH, Gonzalez V, Pakola S, Bezner D, Haller JA, Schwartz SD
   Ophthalmology
   2010 Apr
   117(4):791-7
   
2. Acanthamoeba endophthalmitis following penetrating keratoplasty for Acanthamoeba keratitis
   Davis MJ, Packo KH, Epstein RJ, Grostern RJ, Cohen JA
   Arch Ophthalmol
   2010 Apr
   128(4):505-6
   
3. Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
   Davis MJ, Ravage ZB, Packo KH, Arevalo JF, Bernstein PS, Berger AS
   Retina
   2008 Mar
   28(3):520-4
   

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• Blindness is a very terrifying concept to patients — with the loss of vision comes the loss of independence. And prior to the advances of many of the therapies that we have now for things like macular degeneration and diabetes, our patients became scared because of their loss of independence. We’re now able to liberate them. Patients are able to read again. They’re able to get back behind the wheel of a car where previously they were in danger of losing that. And that is an extraordinary emotional lift for these patients.

  I love what I do. I love the smiles on patients’ faces when you’re able to give them back vision, particularly when they come to you because they’re worried about going blind — they’re worried about their last eye going down the tubes. And if you’re able to stop that — and many times we are — it gives you a sense of satisfaction that I don’t think you can find anywhere else in medicine.