PURPOSE To compare and analyze changes in vision quality, subjective symptoms, and psycho-social satisfaction in keratoconus and myopic patients following the wearing of contact lenses. METHODS This study enrolled 25 keratoconus and 25 myopic patients with corrected vision over 0.8 according to the Snellen chart due to treatment with contact lenses. Patients were surveyed prior to the wearing...

OBJECTIVE: It was aimed to evaluate the changes observed in anterior segment parameters patients with keratoconus using Pentacam device according severity of disease and compare determined results those obtained from healthy individuals.MATERIAL AND METHODS: The data by for 104 eyes 52 120 60 individuals were retrospectively evaluated. Demographic features patients, corneal curvature posterior ...

SINCE this condition was first described (Butler, 1930), only a handful ofcases has been added to the literature. In view of its infrequency, some cases are presented and compared with previous descriptions. Perhaps the name, although anatomically descriptive, is unfortunate, for it would imply that the condition has some relationship with the better-known conical cornea. In fact, there is no e...

In keratoconus, the cornea becomes progressively ectactic resulting in severe visual impairment. Here, we use a combination of videokeratography and synchrotron X-ray diffraction to investigate the relationship between corneal shape and thickness, and the distribution and predominant orientation of stromal fibrillar collagen in five keratoconus corneas. In all but the least advanced case, the t...

PURPOSE To determine whether patients with sporadic, non-familial keratoconus and no pathogenic mutations in the visual system homeobox 1 (VSX1) gene have evidence of chromosomal copy number alterations. METHODS Twenty Saudi Arabian patients with isolated keratoconus, no family history of the disease and no mutations in VSX1 were recruited. Additionally, 10 ethnically-matched healthy controls...

To compare the efficacy of epithelium-off corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) with transepithelial CXL in patients progressive keratoconus a follow-up 3 years, taking into account patients’ age and location ectasia. In this prospective study participated 64 eyes were included long-term study, which 31 treated by 33 CXL. All 36 months evaluated for visual variables (corrected distance acuity (CD...

Objectives: To find out the prevalence and severity of keratoconus in spring catarrh patients. Study Design: Descriptive Perspective study. Setting: OPD K.D.A Teaching Hospital Kohat. Period: March 2017 to October 2019. Material & Methods: All patients suffering from were included study after consent. Proper proforma was designed for record. Detail history taken diagnosis all properly exami...

Purpose: To compare and assess the ability of pressure-derived parameters and corneal deformation waveform signal-derived parameters of the ocular response analyzer (ORA) measurement to distinguish between keratoconus and normal eyes, and to develop a combined parameter to optimize the diagnosis of keratoconus. Materials and methods: One hundred and seventy-seven eyes (177 patients) with kerato...

PURPOSE To assess the long-range outcomes of photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) using functional and topographic criteria in myopic eyes with suspected keratoconus. SETTING Rothschild Foundation, Paris, France. DESIGN Retrospective interventional case series. METHODS Eyes of patients classified as keratoconus suspects or keratoconus by the Corneal Navigator software of the OPD-Scan II devi...

PURPOSE To investigate and map the polarizing properties of keratoconus corneas in vitro and to compare the results with those obtained in normal corneas. METHODS Corneal buttons of five keratoconus corneas were investigated by polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT). The instrument measures backscattered intensity (conventional OCT), retardation, and (cumulative) slow ax...