eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | keratoconus |
| Comorbidity | C0155135|corneal ectasia |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 25272085 | Previous results indicate that corneal cross-linking can slow down, stabilise or even reverse the progression of corneal ectasia in patients with keratoconus as well as in patients with ectasia after excimer laser ablations. |
| PubMedID- 22570545 | The athens protocol, in the treatment of corneal ectasia associated with keratoconus, iatrogenic ectasia, and recently severe cornea scarring.21–27 the novel treatment described herein may become an alternative to the athens protocol, serving potentially the same purpose of normalizing corneal irregularity with customized toric and spherical infrared laser cornea refractive modification and stabilizing the ectasia with combined corneal collagen cross-linking, without tissue removal or corneal thinning. |
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