To assess corneal biomechanical changes in eyes undergoing phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) and to investigate the relationship of PTK with corneal thickness. Phototherapeutic keratectomy was ...

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Type 1 granular corneal dystrophy is believed to be associated with an accumulation of abnormal filamentous protein in the anterior stroma that can spread to the deeper layers of the stroma or forward ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — At Hawaiian Eye 2022, Audrey Talley Rostov, MD, discusses a lamellar keratoplasty technique ...

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In 1910, Professor Ernst Fuchs, an Austrian ophthalmologist, published an article describing 13 patients with Fuchs’ dystrophy, a condition in the cornea that subsequently bears his name. The patients ...

If you have this condition, you were born with it, but you probably won’t have symptoms until your 30s or 40s. For most people, problems don’t appear until they’re 50 or older. Fuchs’ has two major ...

Because the condition was bilateral, a corneal dystrophy was suspected. Lattice dystrophy typically presents with branching refractile lattice lines with intervening haze, which are observed best ...