Intrastromal Crystalline Deposits Following Hydrogel Keratophakia in Monkeys
作者:
Ross Parks,
Bernard McCarey,
Patricia Knight,
Blake Storie,
期刊:
Cornea
(OVID Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 12,
issue 1
页码: 29-34
ISSN:0277-3740
年代: 1993
出版商: OVID
关键词: Crystals;Hydrogel;Intracorneal lens;Keratophakia;Refractive surgery
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Intrastromal corneal crystals developed in 11 of 49 monkey eyes with hydrogel intracorneal lenticules followed over a 4 year period. All of the eyes, except one, underwent synthetic keratophakia via a microkeratome incision. The diagnosis of crystal formation was initially made by slit-lamp examination and confirmed with specular microscopy (from 21 to 150 days post-hydrogel keratophakia). The crystals were noted to lie in a plane adjacent to the hydrogel lenticule and specular microscopy revealed polychromatic, hyperrefringent crystals with either a rectangular or linear morphology. Prior to intrastromal crystal formation, these corneas developed early postoperative stromal edema (*3 weeks). We hypothesize that early stromal edema in combination with the hydrogel intracorneal lenticule induced the production of lipid crystals by stromal keratocytes.
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