Immunological activity to different corneal antigens in patients with corneal diseases.

Immunological activity to different corneal antigens in patients with corneal diseases.

Patients suffering from various corneal diseases and waiting for keratoplasty have been immunologically investigated in order to establish sensitisation to corneal antigens. The presence of lymphocytes sensitised to the soluble from human corneas, bovine corneal epithelium, and bovine corneal stroma, which all possess common antigenicity, could be demonstrated in 30%, 50%, and 23%, respectively...

Prediction of Corneal Condition After Corneal Ring Implantation in Keratoconus Patients

Background: Keratoconus is a common complication among corneal defects. As a result of expeditious and extensive progress of medical science in recent decades, corneal ring implantation has turned into a successful surgical procedure to correct the vision of Keratoconus patients; however, selecting the right patient is essential in the success of the operation. The prediction of corneal conditi...

Effect of dexamethasone in combination with acetylcysteine at different times on corneal wound healing in dogs

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of different time combinations of dexamethasoneand acetylcysteine on experimentally induced corneal ulcers in dogs. Experimental corneal wounds werecreated surgically to the anterior one third of the cornea in the center of all eyes of 15 mixed breed dogs. The eyes were divided into five groups according to planned post-operative medications...

Central corneal thickness measurement with different devices in keratoconic patients

We read with great interest the article by Aghazadeh Amiri et al. concerning the corneal thickness (CT) measurements with Scheimpflug and slit scanning imaging techniques in keratoconus (KC). We would like to congratulate with the authors for their very interesting paper because it is well known that the measurement of CT is involved in the reliability of intraocular pressure measurements, both...

Prevalence of Fungal Keratitis (FK) in Patients with Corneal Ulcers in Tehran, Iran