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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease cataract
Phenotype C0022578|keratoconus
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PubMedID- 24348406 Five eyes of 3 cataract patients with topographically stable keratoconus or pellucid macular degeneration (pmd), in which phacoemulsification with toric iol implantation was used to correct high astigmatism, are reported.
PubMedID- 24825942 cataract extraction in patient with keratoconus is challenging task, due to numerous difficulties related to intraoperative and postoperative complications, iol power estimation, namely interpretation of keratometry readings, determining the astigmatism axis and accurate axial length measurement.
PubMedID- 22670082 cataract surgery in patients with keratoconus is challenging due to the inaccuracies involved in estimating the iol power in these patients who have irregular astigmatism and high myopia [4].
PubMedID- 24397709 Mutations were detected in patients with keratoconus and in a patient with bilateral cataract formation.
PubMedID- 23387289 Family-based studies have recently led to the identification of the mir184 gene for keratoconus with cataract and to the dock9 gene in a family with isolated keratoconus.
PubMedID- 24491385 During cataract surgery in cases with severe keratoconus, the intraocular images are distorted and visual perspective is lost because of irregular corneal astigmatism.
PubMedID- 22691069 For example, mutation in the seed region of mir-184 causes familial keratoconus with cataract [14] and mutations in the seed region of mir-96 are responsible for nonsyndromic progressive hearing loss [15].

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