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Systemic Associations with Keratoconus

Life, 2023
Keratoconus is a disease of the cornea that results in progressive steepening and thinning of the cornea and subsequent vision loss. It nearly always presents as a bilateral disease, suggesting that there is an underlying abnormality of the corneas that ...
Prasida Unni, Hyunjoo Jean Lee
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Clinical performance of a new hybrid contact lens for keratoconus [PDF]

, 2014
Objectives: To compare the clinical performance of the Clearkone hybrid contact lens for the treatment of keratoconus against the habitual contact lens of the patients. Methods: A total of 33 eyes from 18 patients were fitted with the Clearkone. High-
Abdalla, Acar, Apsey, Barnett, Betts, Chung, Edrington, Elliott, Fernandez-Velazquez, Fonn, Fujita, Gonzalez-Meijome, Gonzalez-Meijome, Guirao, Jinabhai, Kubaloglu, Lee, Lembach, Lipson, Lopez-Alemany, Maguen, Mannis, Mantyjarvi, McMahon, Nau, Owens, Ozkurt, Pesudovs, Pesudovs, Pilskalns, Rabinowitz, Reeves, Schirmbeck, Sorbara, Williams, Xie, Zadnik   +36 more
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Spartan Daily, October 3, 2013 [PDF]

, 2013
Volume 141, Issue 16https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1435/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Comparative analysis of peripheral corneal geometry in health and Keratoconus [PDF]

, 2017
OBJECTIVES:: To describe and compare corneal peripheral angles in normal and keratoconic eyes, to gain a better understanding of the topography of the periphery of the cornea in keratoconus and assist practitioners in the selection and fitting of large ...
Cardona Torradeflot, Genís, Gispets Parcerisas, Joan, Lupón Bas, Núria, Mas Aixalà, Enric   +3 more
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Corneal elevation and keratoconus indices in a 40- to 64-year-old population, Shahroud Eye Study

Journal of Current Ophthalmology, 2015
Purpose: To determine the corneal elevation values and keratoconus indices in the 40- to 64-year-old population and their changes with aging. Methods: The 6311 invitees of this study were selected through random cluster sampling, and 5190 of them ...
Hassan Hashemi, Asghar Beiranvand, Mehdi Khabazkhoob, Shiva Mehravaran, Mohammad Hassan Emamian, Abbasali Yekta, Mohammad Shariati, Akbar Fotouhi   +7 more
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Hypothyroidism is Not Associated with Keratoconus Disease: Analysis of 626 Subjects

Journal of Ophthalmology, 2019
Purpose. To analyze the association between hypothyroidism and keratoconus, we examined blood thyroid hormone levels and corneal tomographic parameters in healthy subjects and patients with keratoconus. Methods.
Zsuzsa Flaskó, Elena Zemova, Timo Eppig, László Módis, Achim Langenbucher, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Berthold Seitz, Nóra Szentmáry   +7 more
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Elastic microfibril distribution in the cornea: Differences between normal and keratoconic stroma [PDF]

, 2017
The optical and biomechanical properties of the cornea are largely governed by the collagen-rich stroma, a layer that represents approximately 90% of the total thickness.
Inatomi, Tsutomu, Kinoshita, Shigeru, Kitazawa, Koji, Lewis, Philip, Meek, Keith Michael Andrew, White, Tomas, Young, Robert David   +6 more
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Comparative study of the corneal morphological characteristics of keratoconus evaluated using Pentacam, Sirius, and CASIA2

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
Purpose: To compare the corneal morphology measurements of keratoconus using Pentacam, Sirius, and CASIA2. Methods: Patients diagnosed with keratoconus at Fudan Eye and ENT Hospital (January to November, 2022) were included.
Bingqing Sun, Xiaojun Hu, Xiaoliao Peng, Weijung Ten, Yangyi Huang, Ling Sun, Xingtao Zhou, Xiaoyu Zhang   +7 more
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Keratoconus progression associated with hormone replacement therapy

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2019
Purpose: To report a postmenopausal patient with keratoconus who experienced significant progression after using hormone replacement therapy. Observations: A 51-year-old woman with previously stable keratoconus presented with acute disease progression ...
Giulia Coco, Ahmad Kheirkhah, William Foulsham, Reza Dana, Joseph B. Ciolino   +4 more
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Mismatch of corneal specialists’ expectations and keratoconus knowledge in general ophthalmologists - a prospective observational study in Switzerland

BMC Medical Education, 2021
Background To assess whether Swiss general ophthalmologists have the minimal keratoconus knowledge that corneal specialists would expect them to have. Methods Corneal specialists defined “minimal keratoconus knowledge” (MKK) with respect to definition ...
Philipp B. Baenninger, Lucas M. Bachmann, Katja C. Iselin, Oliver A. Pfaeffli, Claude Kaufmann, Michael A. Thiel, Gerd Gigerenzer   +6 more
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