Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Keratoconus

  • Munson's sign (lower lid bulge on downgaze)
  • Rizzuti's sign (loss of normal corneal reflectance in the slit lamp)
  • retinoscopy scissors reflex
  • Charleaux oil droplet sign (retroillumination)
  • Vogt's striae (folds in Descemet's membrane)
  • Fleischer's ring (iron in corneal epithelium)
  • stromal thinning
  • stromal scarring
  • prominent corneal nerves
  • swirl SPK staining
  • pseudo-reduced IOP
  • loss of BCVA
  • asymmetric (>1D) astigmatism
  • elevated total higher-order aberrations
  • elevated vertical coma (> 0.53 um)
  • elevated topography I/S values (>1.4)
  • apical elevation over best fit sphere on anterior and posterior elevation maps
  • corneal thinning
  • corneal irregularity

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