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QuintriX · QuintriX

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18180676?ordinalpos=16&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.P...

QuintriX · QuintriX

Efficient Non-Viral Ocular Gene Transfer with Compacted DNA Nanoparticles (Published: December 20, 2006) Copyright: © 2006 Farjo et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted us...

D3I · D3I

Just posted notice of this new report in another thread about beating KC naturally, but perhaps it should be a specific topic: Mcmillan J (June 05, 2018) Spectrum of Darkness, Agent of Light: Myopia, Keratoconus, Ocular Surface Disease, and Evidence for a Profoundly Vitamin D-dependent Eye. Cure...

Tankhill01 · Tankhill01

I keep hearing people post on how they beat keratoconus and there vision got better without glasses. These same people always post a website that doesn't exist. Can you beat keratoconus yes you can, but will people tell you for free no they won't everything in this world is about money people who have t...

Yarsky · Yarsky

hello guys! looks like new stuff (i am not good in optical devices , so may be mistaken, and that may be the old stuff) http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4613217.html Need to know who works with these glasses, who produces them, which optitians work with them, etc, in continental Europe or Eng...

Hari · Hari

It has been interesting to read recently how diet is being more and more attributed to certain disease. After having Mini Ark the Lombardi Clinic suggested I try a Ph Diet... it also seems that other's have looked into the link between nutrition and keratoconus: Magnesium Many conditions hav...

Aleksandra · Aleksandra

Good day! My name is Alexandra and I'm from Russia. Suffer keratoconus more than two years, no operations are made. I wonder how much progress have experts in the field of genetics keratoconus and what stage is the development of keratoconus at the genetic level? Whether to apply the biodegradable l...

kennybegun · kennybegun

Over the last three plus decades, I have developed a specialty of fitting Rigid Contact lenses for Keratoconus. Early in my practice, I was providing feedback for Art Optical, resulting in the development of their AKS fitting system. This would be what we now refer to as beta testing. One thing KCN pa...

Remo · Remo

They found a new layer in the cornea, in the article in the below link (and if I read it correctly), it is said to be where a Hydrops episode beginnings from, if it occurs. Does it "re-write the rules" ? not yet until others have studied it, I should think. http://www.livescience.com/37348-new-layer-...

Vicky · Vicky

Narayana Nethralaya inaugurated a laboratory set up exclusively for research, diagnosis and treatment of dry eyes in Bangalore.http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/soon-you-can-shed-a-tear-over-your-health/article4507629.eceVicky

mz · mz

http://drspinello.com/kcvision2/

x02159 · Wed Apr 11 6:43 AM, 2007 by x02159

What do you guys make of the link below... a bit different than the usual!!! "Looking at the big picture results in improved patient satisfaction and a better contact lens experience. More than 50 years ago, Dr. Gene Reynolds noticed that some World War II fighters who initially exh...

QuintriX · QuintriX

Now this is pretty important, as not a lot of people know about it, it also can not be found on the internet, it was put across to a few choice eye-care professionals interested in kc, at a meeting I went to, from the specialist work that was carried out on this topic for a great number of years. The...

QuintriX · QuintriX

This is an interesting article about progressive Myopia, its similar to KC in many ways and so is the closest cousine there is to KC I think (Prof. Lombadri was telling me its the same thing but in another form) The debate tally's to much talked about for the causes of KC, there is referances to e...

QuintriX · QuintriX

Ophthalmology. 2005 Dec 17;: [Pubmed] [Scholar] [Select] [Drop] [Hide] [Show] Is There an Association between Diabetes and Keratoconus? Irene C Kuo, Aimee Broman, Ashkan Pirouzmanesh, Michele Melia PURPOSE: To examine whether there is an association between di...

QuintriX · QuintriX

In 1936, Applebaum (Archives of Ophthalmology) estimated the prevalence of KC at about one in 2,000 patients. In 1959, Hofstetter (American Journal of Optometry, Academy) raised the ante to around one in 450. Today's diagnostic instrumentation and tomorrow's genetic testing will show more def...

QuintriX · QuintriX

The topic header here is a phrase i heard Yarsky use and i just wanted to write about it. The age of a person matters in kc... its seem the older you are (30+) the more your kc behaves and stops/slows kc! Is it hormones? Is it the same effect as when skin ages and beco...

QuintriX · QuintriX

Genetic Testing for Keratoconus One of the most promising technologies to screen candidates for LASIK is a genetic test that may be able to differentiate between patients who are predisposed to develop keratoconus and those who are not. Yaron S. Rabinowitz, MD, director of ophthalmology r...

Yarsky · Yarsky

Hiere is a new devise wiith possible aplications on KC early dedction and which certainly will provide more info on our desease. http://www.ocularresponseanalyzer.com/ KC cornea is more soft than a normal one, less elastic, mo...

QuintriX · QuintriX

http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/full/42/9/1980

QuintriX · QuintriX

Is this why one eye has more kc than another ...usually? http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/3/901 -- Edited by QuintriX at 00:08, 2006-06-17

BionicEyes · BionicEyes

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=pubmed&term=magnesium+keratoconus&tool=fuzzy&ot=masnesium+keratoconus

Yarsky · Yarsky

Hello guys, check out this database (thanks to our friend Fil) http://www.sciencedirect.com/ search on "keratoconus" results are - thumbs up.

Sat Feb 25 9:54 AM, 2006 by

Here is the result and conclusion of the study below. RESULTS: In the univariate associations, there was an association between keratoconus and atopy as well as eye rubbing and family history of keratoconus. However, in the multivariate analysis, only eye rubbing was still a significant predi...

Yarsky · Yarsky

This reasearch was published recently in Cornea. It tells us about very long-term (10 -17 years) outcomes of corneal transplantation for keratoconus patients with the focus on the endothelial calls death after KC. It tells us that PK, or corneal graft, "kills" endothelial cells, whose number fal...

Magnus · Magnus

For those of you interested, I have written a simple explanation to why keratoconus affects our vision. I would love to have your comments, either here or in my blog. The url is: http://keratocon.us/?p=25 Magnus PS. Administrators, feel free...

Hari · Hari

November 7, 2005 Genetic, environmental factors may play roles in keratoconus The incidence and severity of keratoconus were found to be high in a study of patients in a mountainous region of Saudi Arabia, with early onset and more rapid progression to severe disease stage at young age....

Eapen · Eapen

Some pics of extreme coning of KC found in the net. (though I've not had a chance to see mine) [img]http://www.cornea.org/images...

Yarsky · Yarsky

The answer on this question seems to be very important to understanding of the nature of KC. The article herebelow, published in Cornea in 2003, speaks about the 20 years follow up post graft study of a relatively big number of KC eyes. The conclusion is that in the long run there is the recurence of the K...

Eapen · Eapen

[url=http://www.contactlenses.co.uk/education/professional/keratoconus__disc...

Yarsky · Yarsky

Probably this question was already asked here. I know that only a certain percentage of all KC is a family condition. What is the probability that my kids will have KC as I do? Having in mind that i do not know of any other member in my family who would have KC. Probably my genes responsible for nor...

Bethaniej · Thu Oct 13 1:20 PM, 2005 by Bethaniej

[url=http://www.brilliantvision.com/keratoconus4.htm]Please

Fri Sep 23 5:29 AM, 2005 by

TOP STORIES 9/13/2005 Keratectasia may not be long-term problem, speaker says tassignon Condon Ridley Marie-José Tassignon, MD, (left) presented Patrick Condon, MCh, FRCS(Irl), FRCOphth, with the Ridley Medal here at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meetin...

Tue Sep 20 2:48 AM, 2005 by

The Extra-cellular Matrix Structure in Keratoconus 1Stachs O., 1Bochert A., 2Gerber T., 3Koczan D., 1Sommer U., 3Thiessen H.-J., 1Guthoff R., 1Universität Rostock, Augenklinik (Rostock) 2Universität Rostock, Fachbereich Physik (Rostock) 3Universität Rostock, Institut für I...

Sat Sep 17 4:03 AM, 2005 by

Changes in Collagen Orientation and Distribution in Keratoconus Corneas Keith M. Meek,1 Stephen J. Tuft,2 Yifei Huang,3 Paulvinder S. Gill,1 Sally Hayes,1 Richard H. Newton,1 and Anthony J. Bron4 1From the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Ki...

Sandi · Sandi

Hi might be of interest? http://www.laser-prk.com/pressrelease.htm at bottom of screen click links to view pdf.... part1 is quite technical(and some in french!) part 2 easier (for me)to understand...causes+1..genetics..intacs Take Care Sandi

Yarsky · Yarsky

There is a very basic question: statistics of stages at which KC, without any treatment, stops to evoluate. Let's there is N trackrecords KC up to date. N_1=number of cases where it stoped for good at I stage N_2=number of cases where it stoped for good at II stage N_3=number of cases where i...

Yarsky · Wed Aug 3 11:34 PM, 2005 by Yarsky

The Title of this link is called.... "Scientists characterize proteome of human cornea" Please Click Here

Mon Jul 11 7:59 PM, 2005 by

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.snof.org/maladies/allergie.html

Mon Jun 27 4:19 PM, 2005 by

The latest on the locality of the kc gene which has been found. please click on the link below... Locality of KC gene found Work is on going to further isolate the gene even further....one day gene therapy may be on t...

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	STICKY: Quality of life (Preview) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18180676?ordinalpos=16&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.P...	QuintriX	0	338	Tue Feb 12 5:52 AM, 2008 by QuintriX
	STICKY: Gene Therapy Primary Research (Preview) Efficient Non-Viral Ocular Gene Transfer with Compacted DNA Nanoparticles (Published: December 20, 2006) Copyright: © 2006 Farjo et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted us...	QuintriX	0	280	Mon Jan 15 9:09 PM, 2007 by QuintriX
	Vitamin D3 deficiency may be primary cause of keratoconus...findings can be reversed in presence of adequate replacement (Preview) Just posted notice of this new report in another thread about beating KC naturally, but perhaps it should be a specific topic: Mcmillan J (June 05, 2018) Spectrum of Darkness, Agent of Light: Myopia, Keratoconus, Ocular Surface Disease, and Evidence for a Profoundly Vitamin D-dependent Eye. Cure...	D3I	0	83	Thu Jun 7 1:59 AM, 2018 by D3I

	How to cure keratoconus naturally (Preview) I keep hearing people post on how they beat keratoconus and there vision got better without glasses. These same people always post a website that doesn't exist. Can you beat keratoconus yes you can, but will people tell you for free no they won't everything in this world is about money people who have t...	Tankhill01	0	23	Tue Dec 20 4:44 PM, 2016 by Tankhill01
	Looks like new astigmatic spectacles (Preview) hello guys! looks like new stuff (i am not good in optical devices , so may be mistaken, and that may be the old stuff) http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4613217.html Need to know who works with these glasses, who produces them, which optitians work with them, etc, in continental Europe or Eng...	Yarsky	1	420	Mon Apr 20 9:22 PM, 2015 by JimKC
	Diet Vs Keratoconus ( 1 2 ) (Preview) It has been interesting to read recently how diet is being more and more attributed to certain disease. After having Mini Ark the Lombardi Clinic suggested I try a Ph Diet... it also seems that other's have looked into the link between nutrition and keratoconus: Magnesium Many conditions hav...	Hari	8	1070	Tue Oct 7 9:05 PM, 2014 by nux2k

	new methods of treatment (Preview) Good day! My name is Alexandra and I'm from Russia. Suffer keratoconus more than two years, no operations are made. I wonder how much progress have experts in the field of genetics keratoconus and what stage is the development of keratoconus at the genetic level? Whether to apply the biodegradable l...	Aleksandra	1	71	Fri Sep 5 1:43 AM, 2014 by Wayne
	Not all people who rub their eyes develop Keratoconus..Why?? Keratoconus Eye rubbing Bell's Phenomenon (Preview) Over the last three plus decades, I have developed a specialty of fitting Rigid Contact lenses for Keratoconus. Early in my practice, I was providing feedback for Art Optical, resulting in the development of their AKS fitting system. This would be what we now refer to as beta testing. One thing KCN pa...	kennybegun	1	40	Wed Aug 13 9:52 PM, 2014 by Remo
	New Corneal Layer Found (Preview) They found a new layer in the cornea, in the article in the below link (and if I read it correctly), it is said to be where a Hydrops episode beginnings from, if it occurs. Does it "re-write the rules" ? not yet until others have studied it, I should think. http://www.livescience.com/37348-new-layer-...	Remo	2	93	Tue Jun 18 12:18 AM, 2013 by Wayne

	Soon you can shed a tear over your health (Preview) Narayana Nethralaya inaugurated a laboratory set up exclusively for research, diagnosis and treatment of dry eyes in Bangalore.http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/soon-you-can-shed-a-tear-over-your-health/article4507629.eceVicky	Vicky	1	42	Sun Apr 7 1:43 PM, 2013 by Kelly
	Vision Simulations (Preview) http://drspinello.com/kcvision2/	mz	1	470	Sat Jul 12 10:20 PM, 2008 by HenryG
	Treating the Whole KC Patient (Preview) What do you guys make of the link below... a bit different than the usual!!! "Looking at the big picture results in improved patient satisfaction and a better contact lens experience. More than 50 years ago, Dr. Gene Reynolds noticed that some World War II fighters who initially exh...		2	354	Wed Apr 11 6:43 AM, 2007 by x02159

	The Epithelium is very clever! (Preview) Now this is pretty important, as not a lot of people know about it, it also can not be found on the internet, it was put across to a few choice eye-care professionals interested in kc, at a meeting I went to, from the specialist work that was carried out on this topic for a great number of years. The...	QuintriX	2	271	Mon Oct 30 12:50 PM, 2006 by Hari
	The Myopic Debate: Nature V Nurture (Preview) This is an interesting article about progressive Myopia, its similar to KC in many ways and so is the closest cousine there is to KC I think (Prof. Lombadri was telling me its the same thing but in another form) The debate tally's to much talked about for the causes of KC, there is referances to e...	QuintriX	1	236	Mon Oct 2 12:52 PM, 2006 by Yarsky
	Diabetes & keratoconus (Preview) Ophthalmology. 2005 Dec 17;: [Pubmed] [Scholar] [Select] [Drop] [Hide] [Show] Is There an Association between Diabetes and Keratoconus? Irene C Kuo, Aimee Broman, Ashkan Pirouzmanesh, Michele Melia PURPOSE: To examine whether there is an association between di...	QuintriX	0	216	Fri Sep 22 2:57 PM, 2006 by QuintriX

	KC one in 450 (Preview) In 1936, Applebaum (Archives of Ophthalmology) estimated the prevalence of KC at about one in 2,000 patients. In 1959, Hofstetter (American Journal of Optometry, Academy) raised the ante to around one in 450. Today's diagnostic instrumentation and tomorrow's genetic testing will show more def...	QuintriX	0	270	Wed Sep 13 12:02 AM, 2006 by QuintriX
	Age the natural X linking (Preview) The topic header here is a phrase i heard Yarsky use and i just wanted to write about it. The age of a person matters in kc... its seem the older you are (30+) the more your kc behaves and stops/slows kc! Is it hormones? Is it the same effect as when skin ages and beco...	QuintriX	4	381	Wed Aug 23 1:18 AM, 2006 by QuintriX
	Genetic Testing for Keratoconus (Preview) Genetic Testing for Keratoconus One of the most promising technologies to screen candidates for LASIK is a genetic test that may be able to differentiate between patients who are predisposed to develop keratoconus and those who are not. Yaron S. Rabinowitz, MD, director of ophthalmology r...	QuintriX	0	257	Sun Jul 16 8:15 PM, 2006 by QuintriX

	ocular Response Analizer ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Hiere is a new devise wiith possible aplications on KC early dedction and which certainly will provide more info on our desease. http://www.ocularresponseanalyzer.com/ KC cornea is more soft than a normal one, less elastic, mo...	Yarsky	10	571	Sun Jul 16 4:10 PM, 2006 by QuintriX
	a1-PI: A Role in Keratoconus? (Preview) http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/full/42/9/1980	QuintriX	0	275	Mon Jun 19 12:53 AM, 2006 by QuintriX
	Left and Right eyes are different! (Preview) Is this why one eye has more kc than another ...usually? http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/3/901 -- Edited by QuintriX at 00:08, 2006-06-17	QuintriX	1	302	Sat Jun 17 1:30 AM, 2006 by Yarsky

	Thalasselis syndrome ( 1 2 ) (Preview) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=pubmed&term=magnesium+keratoconus&tool=fuzzy&ot=masnesium+keratoconus	BionicEyes	11	520	Tue Jun 13 1:28 AM, 2006 by QuintriX
	articles source (Preview) Hello guys, check out this database (thanks to our friend Fil) http://www.sciencedirect.com/ search on "keratoconus" results are - thumbs up.	Yarsky	0	242	Sun Mar 19 11:06 AM, 2006 by Yarsky
	Atopy + Eye Rubbing + Family history (Preview) Here is the result and conclusion of the study below. RESULTS: In the univariate associations, there was an association between keratoconus and atopy as well as eye rubbing and family history of keratoconus. However, in the multivariate analysis, only eye rubbing was still a significant predi...		0	404	Sat Feb 25 9:54 AM, 2006 by

	Endothelium cell death in PK (Preview) This reasearch was published recently in Cornea. It tells us about very long-term (10 -17 years) outcomes of corneal transplantation for keratoconus patients with the focus on the endothelial calls death after KC. It tells us that PK, or corneal graft, "kills" endothelial cells, whose number fal...	Yarsky	2	228	Mon Jan 2 9:15 PM, 2006 by Yarsky
	Keratoconus refraction problems - why does an irregular cornea cause bad vision? (Preview) For those of you interested, I have written a simple explanation to why keratoconus affects our vision. I would love to have your comments, either here or in my blog. The url is: http://keratocon.us/?p=25 Magnus PS. Administrators, feel free...	Magnus	6	355	Tue Nov 29 7:15 PM, 2005 by
	New KC Study/environmental factors (Preview) November 7, 2005 Genetic, environmental factors may play roles in keratoconus The incidence and severity of keratoconus were found to be high in a study of patients in a mountainous region of Saudi Arabia, with early onset and more rapid progression to severe disease stage at young age....	Hari	5	284	Wed Nov 9 5:00 AM, 2005 by

	Extreme KCs (Preview) Some pics of extreme coning of KC found in the net. (though I've not had a chance to see mine) [img]http://www.cornea.org/images...	Eapen	4	284	Wed Oct 19 3:11 PM, 2005 by Eapen
	Post graft recurence of the KC: true or false? (Preview) The answer on this question seems to be very important to understanding of the nature of KC. The article herebelow, published in Cornea in 2003, speaks about the 20 years follow up post graft study of a relatively big number of KC eyes. The conclusion is that in the long run there is the recurence of the K...	Yarsky	6	378	Tue Oct 18 2:03 AM, 2005 by
	Types of KC Cones - Nipple , Oval, Globus (Preview) [url=http://www.contactlenses.co.uk/education/professional/keratoconus__disc...	Eapen	1	319	Fri Oct 14 10:14 PM, 2005 by

	heredity ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Probably this question was already asked here. I know that only a certain percentage of all KC is a family condition. What is the probability that my kids will have KC as I do? Having in mind that i do not know of any other member in my family who would have KC. Probably my genes responsible for nor...	Yarsky	9	469	Fri Oct 14 6:30 AM, 2005 by Eapen
	PATHOGENESIS OF KERATOCONUS (a must read!) (Preview) [url=http://www.brilliantvision.com/keratoconus4.htm]Please		3	356	Thu Oct 13 1:20 PM, 2005 by Bethaniej
	Keratectasia may not be long-term problem (Preview) TOP STORIES 9/13/2005 Keratectasia may not be long-term problem, speaker says tassignon Condon Ridley Marie-José Tassignon, MD, (left) presented Patrick Condon, MCh, FRCS(Irl), FRCOphth, with the Ridley Medal here at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meetin...		0	237	Fri Sep 23 5:29 AM, 2005 by

	Extra-cellular Matrix Structure in KC (Preview) The Extra-cellular Matrix Structure in Keratoconus 1Stachs O., 1Bochert A., 2Gerber T., 3Koczan D., 1Sommer U., 3Thiessen H.-J., 1Guthoff R., 1Universität Rostock, Augenklinik (Rostock) 2Universität Rostock, Fachbereich Physik (Rostock) 3Universität Rostock, Institut für I...		0	171	Tue Sep 20 2:48 AM, 2005 by
	Changes in Collagen Orientation & Distribution in KC Corneas (Preview) Changes in Collagen Orientation and Distribution in Keratoconus Corneas Keith M. Meek,1 Stephen J. Tuft,2 Yifei Huang,3 Paulvinder S. Gill,1 Sally Hayes,1 Richard H. Newton,1 and Anthony J. Bron4 1From the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Ki...		0	219	Sat Sep 17 4:03 AM, 2005 by
	conference in France...news on genetic link & news on intacs ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview) Hi might be of interest? http://www.laser-prk.com/pressrelease.htm at bottom of screen click links to view pdf.... part1 is quite technical(and some in french!) part 2 easier (for me)to understand...causes+1..genetics..intacs Take Care Sandi	Sandi	19	739	Sun Sep 11 11:41 PM, 2005 by

	KC stages statistics (Preview) There is a very basic question: statistics of stages at which KC, without any treatment, stops to evoluate. Let's there is N trackrecords KC up to date. N_1=number of cases where it stoped for good at I stage N_2=number of cases where it stoped for good at II stage N_3=number of cases where i...	Yarsky	2	246	Tue Aug 9 2:33 AM, 2005 by
	Scientists characterize proteome of human cornea (Preview) The Title of this link is called.... "Scientists characterize proteome of human cornea" Please Click Here		2	212	Wed Aug 3 11:34 PM, 2005 by Yarsky
	Ocular Alleries (Preview) http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.snof.org/maladies/allergie.html		1	217	Mon Jul 11 7:59 PM, 2005 by

	KC Gene Locality Found...any other ingredients? (Preview) The latest on the locality of the kc gene which has been found. please click on the link below... Locality of KC gene found Work is on going to further isolate the gene even further....one day gene therapy may be on t...		0	212	Mon Jun 27 4:19 PM, 2005 by
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