There is a very basic question: statistics of stages at which KC, without any treatment, stops to evoluate.
Let's there is N trackrecords KC up to date.
N_1=number of cases where it stoped for good at I stage
N_2=number of cases where it stoped for good at II stage
N_3=number of cases where i...
The latest on the locality of the kc gene which has been found. please click on the link below...
Locality of KC gene found
Work is on going to further isolate the gene even further....one day gene therapy may be on t...
This is the conclusion of the study in the link below... "Interleukin-6, TNF-α, and MMP-9 are overexpressed in the tears of patients with keratoconus, indicating that the pathogenesis of keratoconus may involve chronic inflammatory events."
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The is a quote from the study below...
"CONCLUSIONS: More than one-half of corneal topographies of refractive surgery candidates did not comply with the assumed "normal" spherical or spherocylindrical patterns. The possible continuum of keratoconus-suspected keratoconus-lower steep...
This is a quote from the link below...
"After age 30, it rarely progresses any further although there are rare exceptions."
Please Click Here
I also read in a free news letter sent out by the NKCF...in the "Ask th...
Here is a quote from the link below...
"Causes
Keratoconus occurs in females slightly more than in males. One long-term study indicated a prevalence of 54.5 diagnosed cases of keratoconus per 100,000 population. Keratoconus results from an inherited corneal abnormality, an in...
Like I previously posted...here is proof of what i was trying to get across (that a healthy immune system and healthy eyes are directly linked)
The titles of the next link is...
"Gene that fights off bacteria helps maintain normal eyesight, U-M Kellogg Eye Center study finds"
"The same...
The article below says the following "300 Medical Conditions Related to Lyme Borreliosis"....of which one is listed as being Keratoconus??? They also say that Lyme Borreliosis is "A Disease Frequently Misdiagnosed"
If you go to the Keratoconus link on that article it takes you to a study on PUB M...
It looks like we share our Corneal disorder with many other Corneal disorders (kc is not even listed on the link below!)..I think there must be a lot of mis-diagnoses in the fact that kc is not diagnosed, but the symtoms are put down as something else...I think that from previous topics this can be seen a...
A really good document which covers how alleries and infections effect the cornea...
Also the following quote is from that link..
"Studies indicate that keratoconus stems from one of several possible causes:
1. An inherited corneal abnormality. About seven percent of those with th...
There are different types of ways that genes can cause problems...
Here are the three types which have been narrowed down for keratoconus,....Here is an excerpt from link below...
In autosomal dominant disorders, a single copy of the disease gene (received from either the mother...
A friend of mine sent me this link....and here is a quote from that link below...it shows the disorders linked to kc....
"Keratoconus - Marfan syndrome, MVP syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta, Stickler syndrome, magnesium deficiencies and hyaluronic acid abnormalities. (Hyaluro...
Here is a quote from the link below about Trinidad being a place where having KC is "Relatively common"!!! ...
"Another chronic condition that affects our people in the Caribbean with a much higher incidence than our European and North American counterparts is a disease called Keratoconus .Th...
Phil I will copy it here for you like its been copied else where,....where is the original link...?
Abstract
Keratoconus, a non-inflammatory thinning of the cornea, is a leading indication for corneal transplantation. For its causation, we propose a "Cascade Hypothesis" stating that ker...
Hi Guys....The site i got the following information from does not allow linkage to other sites...so this is why I am coping it below...
OCULAR SURGERY NEWS EUROPE/ASIA-PACIFIC EDITION June 2004
Researchers narrow hunt for keratoconus gene
A region in the genome where the mutated gene is p...
Some excellent information from Dr Epstein a prominent KC Doctor....its in adobe reader (you can download adobe reader free from the web)
Please click here! -- Edited by QuintriX at 20:13, 2005-02-27
This is another members only information from the OSN Supersite...and as such i will copy it here as linkage is not possible to the OSN Supersite...
TOP STORIES 11/19/2002
Allergy can affect corneal shape
BEER-SHEBA, Israel — Patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis show mo...
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