purpose : to investigate the correlation between corneal biomechanical properties and tomographic parameters of pentacam methods : corneal biomechanical properties and tomographic results of 36 normal subjects were measured by ocular response analyzer (ora) and pentacam and the correlation between these two measurements were analyzed with pearson correlation test with spss version16. results : ...

purpose: to report the results of different methods for true corneal power and intraocular lens (iol) power calculation in 10 eyes with previous radial keratotomy (rk) with or without astigmatic keratotomy. methods: in this case series including 10 eyes of 7 patients who had undergone rk with or without astigmatic keratotomy, we firstly determined corneal power using two methods: contact lens m...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this report was to describe a single case of recurrent interstitial keratitis in a young patient leading to keratoconus-like corneal changes. RESULTS Over the 2 years follow-up, the patient developed clinical signs of keratoconus with Vogt's striae, Fleischer Ring and paracentral stromal thinning in the affected eye only. The tomographic measurements revealed a rapid...

PURPOSE To investigate the topography of the central and peripheral cornea in a group of young adult subjects with a range of normal refractive errors. METHODS Corneal topography data were acquired for 100 young adult subjects by a method that allows central and peripheral maps to be combined to produce one large, extended corneal topography map. This computer-based method involves matching t...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background : the aim of this study was to determine the correlation between corneal hysteresis (ch) and the corneal resistance factor (crf), which are both novel methods of analyzing ocular rigidity/elasticity, and various corneal characteristics, mainly corneal volume in normal subjects. methods : this cross-sectional study included 500 normal eyes...

PURPOSE To establish whether average refractive overcorrection or undercorrection of corneal astigmatism based on the orientation (rule) of the astigmatism occurs if toric intraocular lenses (IOLs) are calculated on the basis of anterior corneal measurements in eyes requiring toric IOL cylinder power of 2.50 diopters (D) or greater. METHODS One hundred thirteen consecutive eyes with anterior ...

KERATOCONUS: ASYMMETRIC DISEASE Keratoconus is a non-inflammatory corneal ectasia with bilateral involvement in over 90% of patients. However, in a study of 83 patients diagnosed at presentation Burns and coworkers demonstrated there is significant asymmetry of disease both for corneal shape and visual acuity. Quantitative topographical indices reflected changes in corneal power which correlate...

We read with interest the article by Tonn et al. on corneal astigmatism. At the beginning of the article, the authors indicated that: ‘‘Scheimpflug tomographers provide a map of the anterior chamber and therefore a more accurate model of the cornea, its thickness, and posterior surface.’’ Since the anterior chamber is really a space, and not a structure, it is probably clearer to say that Schei...

Heritability estimates for corneal power were found to be high and similar for two populations which differed in their incidence of esotropia. This similarity suggest (1) that genetic differences for corneal power do not contribute to the difference in heritability for spherical refractive error reported for these populations and (2) that this character is not a critical variable contributing t...

purpose : to compare results of different methods for true corneal power determination and intraocular lens (iol) power calculation formulas in 10 eyes of 7 patients with previous radial keratotomy (rk) with or without astigmatic keratotomy methods : in this case series study, we determined the corneal power of 10 eyes of 7 patients who had undergone rk with or without astigmatic keratotomy wit...