Keratoconus is a disease that causes the cornea to slowly get thinner over time. It's the most common corneal dystrophy in the United States, affecting one in every 2,000 Americans. It is more common ...
When her vision first declined, Spokane resident Trayci Ballin shrugged it off as a sign of aging. She’d noticed a minor change in June 2019 after having 20/20 vision for about 14 years after Lasik ...
Eye disorders are on the rise due to the digitally dominant life that we lead in today’s day and age. Since being forewarned is forearmed, one should make conscious efforts to get regular screening ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Wavefront aberrometry plus corneal topography or tomography are ideal entry testing tools for higher-order ...
A $2.1 million grant from the National Eye Institute is now helping Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist, learn more about keratoconus' causes and identify points to better diagnose, ...
Doctors classify keratoconus into stages based on how much the cornea has thinned and changed shape. While there are a few staging systems, one common method classifies it from mild to severe.
This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...