Pre-2000, the clinical management of keratoconus centred on rigid contact lens fitting when spectacle corrected acuity was no longer adequate, and transplantation where contact lens wear failed. Over ...

Hersh and associates [1] reported on 85 eyes with keratoconus (n = 56) or ectasia (n = 29) which underwent corneal collagen crosslinking in a prospective, randomized controlled trial. Clinical ...

Normally, your cornea — the clear outer lens or "windshield" of your eye — has a dome shape, like a ball. Sometimes, the structure isn’t strong enough to hold its round shape and bulges outward, like ...

Some of my happiest patients are those on whom I have performed laser vision correction (LVC) who no longer need glasses or contact lenses. I may not have cured a pathologic condition, but those ...

Diagnosis is made based on the complaints, physical examination and certain investigations like: Keratometry – Images of the keratometry mires are commonly steep, highly astigmatic, irregular, and ...

The eye is a complex organ made up of several layers. The first is the conjunctiva which covers the sclera, also known as the white of the eye. The next is the cornea, a clear dome-shaped layer of ...

Male adolescent and young adult patients were found to have an increased risk of keratoconus if they had attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), regardless ...