Juan Alvarez de Toledo | PubMed Health

PubMed2005

Lisch corneal dystrophy.

PURPOSE: To report a case of a patient with a corneal band-shaped microcystic dystrophy. METHODS: Case report. RESULTS: A 70-year-old woman with unilateral painless loss of visual acuity presented an epithelial feathery corneal opacification involving visual axis that showed an intraepithelial dense microcystic pattern. Histopathologic examination of the epithelial scraping revealed scattered areas of vacuolization within almost the entire epithelium. Visual acuity improved after treatment, and no recurrence was observed. CONCLUSIONS: Clinical and histopathologic features correspond with those described by Lisch in his original report of 1992.

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PubMed2003

Long-term progression of astigmatism after penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus: evidence of late recurrence.

PURPOSE: To study changes in astigmatism throughout a 20-year period using keratometry and refraction in patients who underwent penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) for keratoconus. METHODS: We reviewed the charts of patients who underwent PKP for keratoconus from 1975 to 1979 and recorded preoperative refraction, stage of keratoconus, laterality of surgery, graft size, suture technique, time of suture removal, keratometry, subjective refraction at 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, and 25 years after suture removal, and slit-lamp findings. RESULTS: Eighty eyes with a mean follow-up of 20 years (range, 15-25) were included in the study. Graft size, suture technique, and time of suture removal had no significant influence on the astigmatism at the last examination. We observed a stabilization of keratometric astigmatism in the first 7 years (4.05 +/- 2.29 D 1 year after suture removal, 3.90 +/- 2.28 D at year 3, 4.03 +/- 2.49 D at year 5, 4.39 +/- 2.48 D at year 7) followed by a progressive increase from 10 years after suture removal until the last follow-up visit (5.48 +/- 3.11 D at year 10, 6.43 +/- 4.11 D at year 15; 7.28 +/- 4.21 D at year 20, and 7.25 +/- 4.27 D at year 25). The mean absolute value of the difference vector (DV) calculated by vector analysis was 7.17 +/- 4.35 D (0-18.33). In 70% of cases, progression of the astigmatism was evident with mean absolute DV of 9.10 +/- 3.65 D. There was a significant correlation between the preoperative and final axis of astigmatism (Pearson r = 0.39, p = 0.0008). There was also a slight positive correlation coefficient between the DV of the eyes in bilateral cases, but it was not significant (Spearman's r = 0.2226, p = 0.34). The major late slit-lamp finding was a peripheral crescent-shaped thinning at the graft-host junction with absence of Bowman's layer on histopathology. CONCLUSION: In spite of refractive stability obtained during the first years after PKP for keratoconus, increasing astigmatism thereafter suggests that there is a progression of the disease in the host cornea.

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