GRANULAR CORNEAL-DYSTROPHY - TREATMENT WITH SOFT CONTACT-LENSES

Authors
SEVERIN M KONEN W KIRCHHOF B
Citation
M. Severin et al., GRANULAR CORNEAL-DYSTROPHY - TREATMENT WITH SOFT CONTACT-LENSES, Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology, 236(4), 1998, pp. 291-294
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Ophthalmology
Journal title
Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0721832X
Volume
236
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
291 - 294
Database
ISI
SICI code
0721-832X(1998)236:4<291:GC-TWS>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Perforating keratoplasty was performed in both eyes of two siblings (s ister and brother) with typical granular corneal dystrophy. Three of t he operated eyes showed a recurrence of the underlying disease. In one eye, a recurrence could not be detected 14 years after the operation. This eye had been fitted with a contact lens 16 months after keratopl asty because of aphakia. Thus a contact lens may have a therapeutic ef fect in this primary epithelial disease.