NOT ALL KERATOCONUS PATIENTS NEED GRAFT on diagnosis
if you have just heard this shocking news that you have keratoconus , the first thing to do is to accept it bravely.
you probably have been told by your ophthal that corneal graft is the only remedy ARE WE SURE ABOUT IT...
Are there any Keratoconus patients in here that have implanted ICL lenses? Did you achieve the desired results? What is your visual acuity whith ICL alone? Were there any complications after the surgery? Would you recommend this to other patients?
I would like to ask you advice if UVA-Riboflavin Cross-Linking of the Cornea is possible method to treat 4 steps, advanced keratoconus or some other methods to avoid the cornea implantations.
I am 28 years old; keratoconus had been diagnosed when I was 17 years. I wear RGP contact lens about 11 year...
This links says...
"This O.D. offers practical suggestions about keratoconus that all eyecare practitioners should know." (I think its a good read for a patient as well)
Please Click Here -- Edited by Qui...
The following is an interesting article regarding surgery on thin corneas... I have recently been reading more and more that the tradional approuch... ie: Kc corneal thinness procludes surgery... Is now being amended (in some places)... it seems that there is much more to evaluate and that surger...
HELLO EVERYONE. I am writing to you with the hope to find any piece of good advice from the people undergone keratoconus and more or less cured from it. Who has done the surgery (I refer to the patients with stages III and IV) and what techniques did the doctor use?How many years have passed since the surg...
Gabe posted the following:
RE: KC Regression!!!
"I'm the Gabe whose site QuintriX came across. I was recently invited by Sajeev to join this community. I'm glad to see there's a resource for all of us to come together and share our stories.
For the record, I've never worn contact...
Hi, as promised now please find attached my Topography (pentacam) of my RIGHT eye (OD), two days before my surgery at the Wellingtion Eye Clinic in Dublin. Surgeon: Dr. Cummings Surgery date: 26/05/2011 Costs: 100 € consulting / 2450 € (PRK+CXL) ____________ My LEFT eye (OS) is already crosslinke...
hi every one! I have't updated my case in a while. The thing is I was actually depressed by my results with the cxl treatment. My case started as usual, the first two months the vision was bad, but as expected on most cases. By the 3rd month I started to get worried, my vision wasnt close to what it was before...
I am a first timer. My son Zack is newly diagnosed with KC at an early stage. We live in Chicago and there is no crosslinging option for him here (there are some trials, but not for his age). I was able to reach Dr. Sporel in Dresden (I was amazed he answered his phone and we spoke - this kind of thing is not lik...
So i was reading an article pointed to on this sight that had to do w/ some wwII soldiers and how they were thought to have developed kc as a result of anxiety and such. This makes me curious as too how this relates too the destuction of coneal cell. And stress has been shown to disrupt many bio...
The below study concenrs a question I tried to understand some time ago: several methods give different results. Which one to believe more? Our corneas are liable to change their thickness as function of multiple factors. Even using the same method one may find different results during diff...
Complications after PK should be approached systematically
"San Francisco—Serious complications can develop after penetrating keratoplasty (PK), including flat anterior chamber, pupillary block, wound leak, early broken sutures, suture abscess, wound displacement, glaucoma...
Bausch & Lomb Asks Stores to Pull ReNu
Friday, April 14, 2006
Eye Fungus Outbreak in Contact Wearers
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — ReNu with MoistureLoc was being pulled from U.S. store shelves at the request of Bausch & Lomb (BOL) amid concern the contact lens solution may be linked to a fungal eye inf...
Ever heard of this one?
http://www.citrosept.net
http://www.citrosept.co.uk
We know that keratoconus is not standalone disease. It is connected to many other conditions. There are theories that it may is an infection, we have talked about the connection to the lime disease and so on.
C...
Hi just in case somebody needs it when interpreting his/hers pachymetries tests: corneal thickness is not constant throughout a day: it chnages: thicker in the morning, less thicker in the evening. Range - some say about 20 µm, some say about 7% or 35 µm (if take 500 µm as average). Is there any specifi...
INTRODUCTION Keratoconus is an ocular disorder characterized by progressive corneal thinning and other corneal sequelae, in which the cornea assumes an irregular conical shape. It can be classified according to degree of conicity, and characterized morphologically by the shape of the...
Hello Guys....Please read the following posts from another forum...
First KCers post
I have to admit that these Boston Sclerals seem a bit suspicious.How can this scleral be so much different from others that it is a magical ‘cure’? If so, why isn’t its use more widespread? It wou...
I wanted to bring this topic header to come up as i posted this with-in a related topic.
This link is on the ESCRS web-site and in view for everyone to see it... so i think its important...
The article is called... "Tear film changes can skew topography"
[url=http://www.escrs.org/Esont...
From
American Journal of Ophthalmology
October 2004 (Volume 138, Number 4)
Quality of Life in Keratoconus
Kymes SM, Walline JJ, Zadnik K, Gordon MO; Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study Group
American Journal of Ophthalmology. 2004;138(... >
Do you know that there is a powerful new methode of in vivo imaging of corneal structures? it is called Confocal Microscopie. I'm not sure, but il looks lke it was Prof. Guthoff from Rostok Uni (GR) who developed this method and first used it for corneal science.
This is a short recent summury calle... < 400µm.
2. Contact lens wear. Here I cite" Contact lens wear is another very popular method of correcting refractive error that potentially can affect the cornea in myriad of ways. ...CM has been used to confirm the following known acute and chronic contact lens induced phenomenon: increased surface epithelial cell size, epithelial thinning, stromal folds, endothelial blebs and endothelial polymegethism....For example, superficial cell size increase is higher with high oxygen transmissibility rigid gas permeable lenses than soft lenses (high or low oxygen transmissiblility and epithelial thinning effects follow the hierarchy: high oxygen transmissibility rgp >>
Hello, just find it amazing...It's just that sometimes I feel my KC also depends on what I look at...------------------------------------------J Vis. 2003;3(7):456-63. Epub 2003 Aug 5.
Related Articles,
Links
Change in corneal shape and co...
Hi Everyone... I've asked this question to those who report to know (contact lens support groups) about the below as there was talk of these new kc soft lenses not being that good for oxygen transmitting compared to rgps, by supossedly kc "specialists" that post this at contact lens support group...
When is kc not kc?... where Interpretation of Topography Map's is concerned?
Click on the "maps" on the link....and then look down the page...
I still think that you can have kc WITH a completely flat cornea or when it has been missed because its so mild....as shown when elastia is induced due...
I was reading a very small excerpt somewhere that someones kc specialist recommended them to wear soft contact lens and then to wear glasses as well...as an option to get out of wearing RGPs...
Never tried it myself or know more...what do you think?...wanna ask your kc specialist about it?...it...
Well...the following what I am going to write has always left me feeling cold from the very begining...However I kept it to myself and has been one of the driving forces which started this journey in this TANGLED WEB!!!
Its been documented that the chances of having a corneal transplanation...
I thought I would start a new topic with a post I made on a previous thread...
"So to me... it looks like once again that....for the fore-seeable future, the strenghtening effect of X-Linking plus a good fitting contact lens equals "a cure enough" from the kc loop...
I am sure that th...
Corneal topography shows more than a pretty picture. Different types of topography maps can help you better evaluate the eye's anterior surface and fit contact lenses.By David W. Hansen, OD, FAAOhttp://www.clspectrum.com/article.aspx?article=12399
The title of the next article is called..."Spectacle Overcorrection Reduces Glare and Halos with Array IOL"...
Please Click Here -- Edited by QuintriX at 00:12, 2005-04-24
A great article....It says that 60% of corneal transplant patients need contact lenses (contact lenses needed at this rate was alway suspected by me....but the percentage was always hard to find documented or was hard to get from your very own medical care team)
....This topic I think would com...
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