First Bowman Layer Transplant for Keratoconus Performed at Southwest Eye InstituteDr. Ahmed Soliman of the Southwest Eye Institute in El Paso, Texas recently performed the first Bowman layer transplant for keratoconus in the state of Texas, making the Southwest Eye Institute only the second ce...
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone out there has had any direct experience with (or any knowledge of) stem cell treatment for Kerotoconus/ damaged corneas? Stem cell treatment seems to be the quackery flavour of the mouth for healing everything from autism to baldness but this corneal treatment seem...
Corneal Stroma Cell Density Evolution in Keratoconus Corneas Following the Implantation of Adipose Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Corneal Laminas: An In Vivo Confocal Microscopy Study Mona El Zarif; Karim A. Jawad; Jorge L. Alió Del Barrio; Ziad A. Jawad; Antonio Palazón-Bru; María P. de Miguel; Pe...
I plan to create a database of keratoconus treatments, which includes clinical outcomes (refrections, HOA's, keratoconus progressions, etc), inclusion and exclusion criteria, complications & risks, etc. Of course, all of the information will include medical references. This is so ker...
Hello all, I am new to the site here which I luckily stumbled upon. I will try to be to the point and explain what I wish to convey in my disucssion here. - I have just been diagnosed a couple months ago having KC - For some years I've lived with inadequate vision and eye glasses have only enabled me to instead...
Hello, I'm a new member here. I was just wondering if anyone here has undergone the cross-linking procedure while under the effects of IV sedation? My eyes are too sensitive for me to undergo the cross-linking with only the help of Ativan; I need IV sedation if I am ever going to fix my keratoconus. I hav...
SOOFT italia S.p.A. Receives CE Mark Certification for Its 'Iontophoresis Device for Corneal Cross-Linking'Mar 25, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --SOOFT italia S.p.A., a company of OOgroup, announce the worldwide launch of its "Device and method for Corneal delivery of Riboflavin by Ionto...
Hello everybody,
a senior ophthalmic surgeon Dr. Samir Quawasmi presented a new approach for the treatment of keratoconus (http://drsamirquawasmi.com/en/tv.html) some months ago. Have you heard of it?
I don't know Arabian. Could someone transalte a summary of it into English, please?
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Somewhere on the Internet I read about the scientific history of crosslinking. Maybe it had to do with animals. I know I read it somewhere, but cannot find it again. When people hear that the crosslinking procedure involves Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) and ultra-violet light, they ask how this was disc...
Hello I had both my eyes cross linked last year, I have seen no improvement in vision, my doc told me that my eyes are improving that they are becoming more flat, I was told before any procedures that I'm not suitable for laser as my cornea is too thin, I'm not happy with my results because my vision is still...
http://www.bioportfolio.com/news/article/271156/Avedro-s-Kxl-System-Receives-The-European-Ce-Mark-For-Corneal-Collagen.html Avedro, Inc., sponsor of two completed US FDA multi-center clinical trials for corneal cross-linking, today announced that its KXL™ System for perfo...
Update on keratoconus treatments Introduction Keratoconus and post-LASIK ectasia treatment has become interesting to ophthalmologists at last. The recent 6 th Corneal Collagen Crosslinking meeting in Milan was the best attended ever with over300 surgeons present. Special inter...
http://sciencemode.com/2007/10/05/artificial-cornea-to-be-clinically-tested-in-early-2008-thousands-hope-for-success/-- Edited by Chris_NZ at 09:43, 2007-10-07
Hello All,
Just wondering if anyone has heard of CK Radiofrequency for Advanced Keratoconus? Stumbled upon an abstract to an interesting article and a video. Can anyone access this article without having to pay for it?
Any thoughts on this technology?
http://www.jcrsjournal.org/article...
The European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons recently held their winter meeting in Budapest. During the first day of the conference there was a symposium on keratoconus. Topics discussed included genetics, diagnostics, cross-linking combined with excimer surgery, Intacs, and...
My bottom-line question is: are there any more promising treatments for advanced and progressing keratoconus of this degree -- less than 300 microns which apparently is a typical cutoff for CxL in the U.S. which, at least in this area, seems more liberal -- that are more likely to halt the disease pro...
A comprehesive nutritional protocol for keratoconus Optometric Management, Mar 2000 by Freedman, Joseph M Keratoconus slowly robs young people of their vision and creates a multitude of other problems. Fortunately, a flurry of research is now shedding some light on the mechanisms responsib...
We are pleased to introduce the "C3R –Corneal Collagen Cross Linking with Riboflavin" treatment for keratoconus patients.
C3R is a revolutionary treatment. Corneal Collagen Cross Linking with Riboflavin (C3R) is now available for treating keratoconus permanently at G.G.S.I.EY...
Implantable device for sustained release of cyclosporine may be future of immunosuppression BARCELONA — An implantable device for the sustained delivery of cyclosporine over 1 year may be a valuable method of preventing graft failure, allowing for greater tissue drug levels and reduced side ef...
The Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization has used human blood plasma to produce fibrin glue which can replace surgical stitches. The new glue can be used in various surgical procedures including cornea transplant which is an extremely sensitive operation, officials with the organization to...
I wonder if this was already posted before over here, but this site includes voice and presentation transcripts from the "Refractive online congress". I came acorss it today and was simply stunned. Lots of information and opinions directly from the doctors themselves, you get to hear t...
Replacing cells of corneas....please click on the link below.....
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002392.html -- Edited by QuintriX at 01:12, 2005-10-18
We have already discussed this article somewhere in 2005 or 2006. It is some fundamental research on the corneal structure. In particular, it tells us what is the difference, on a ruther fundamental level, between a normal cornea and a KC cornea. It provoked some other researches in the same vein (cf...
I stumbled upon this article by sheer coincedence today. It doesn't sound very nice but apprarently the study quoted here seems to sugest there could be a connection between KC and mental health. I am wondering now, could this put us KC sufferers at the risk of being stigmatized? As if the problems of K...
Please put here your impressions on how the weather influences your vision.
I understand that the quality of light impacts the pupil size and thus the vision.
I understand the humidity of the air may influence the refraction of the air and thus the vision.
I'd like to understand how otherwise o...
I came across this somewhat dated article regarding complications related to corneal graft: The "Urrez-Sawalij" syndrome confirms our assumptions that in the basis of the disease (Keratoconus) lie not only cellular dislocations in the cornea that lead to its thinning from the cen...
There was a presentation I watched with a Dr using traditional Chinese acupuncture medicine for Keratoconus. His son has Keratoconus and feels particularly devoted to helping him. He is trying to put together more research on acupuncture for KC and wants to make available a pressure point map of wh...
This sawb test could be possiblity added to aid diagnoses. I say possibly, as not even the gene test they are working on claims it will be able to predict keratoconus for anyone tested. Also tear composition changes from day to night, through food in take, medication, changes in hormone levels (ie p...
There is a new type of implantable contact lense technology on the horizon. With this the epithelium is removed and a lense is put in the cornea, then the epithelium grows back over. I was reading from the google cache comments from an old forum where someone had written to the developer of this t...
OK, what is a Hysteresis? and why has this measurment just been discovered and is needed?
No googling for the answer! (and its likely not to be there) as if you was paying attention you guys should know of the top of your heads! (OK very newbies may not know!)
Hi, a little chat with a friend from the french forum set in motion some thoughts that now seem to be well glued up. He mentioned the inflamatory theory of the KC. One element of this theory being that inflamatory molecules trigger specific enzymes synthesis in keratocytes...
Its exactly 100 years since the first corneal transplant. Not only was it the first corneal but also the first of any form of human tissue transplant.
As the article states very little has changed from the basic principles used all those years ago. And once again the old faithful 90% success rate is c...
I've been trying to find out about KC research institutions. It seems that there are very few (two or three at most?) , and none of them is very big. There are almost NO corporations donating to find a cure. There is NO public awareness, in fact many OPTOMETRISTS don't even know about the disease! There i...
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(OK very newbies may not know!
