It mentions that when treating ectatic corneal disorders, such as keratoconus, ophthalmologists have an excess of management options from which to choose. The article also provides two case studies of a ...
A Unique Scleral Lens Population This study focused on three patients, all of whom were diagnosed with hematologic malignancies and receive allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantations (HSCT). Although this is a potentially curative therapy for some, it also increases a patient’s risk for graf...
Irregular astigmatism can result from an eye injury that has caused scarring on the cornea, from certain types of eye surgery or from keratoconus, a disease that causes a gradual thinning of the cornea. Astigmatism tests Astigmatism is detected during a routine eye exam with the same instruments...
Diagnosing a child with sclerocornea or Peter’s anomaly is not helpful. In this child, one eye did badly and developed a retrocorneal membrane and one eye did well, he added. In another case diagnosed with Peter’s anomaly, which normally would have fared well with a corneal transplant...
Three years ago, an outside clinic diagnosed Maria Contreras with keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease that causes thinning and bulging of the cornea. Though the clinic followed her for years, Maria saw no improvement in her vision and continued to suffer from poorly corrected irregular astigmati...