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2003, Number 2

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Rev Mex Oftalmol 2003; 77 (2)

Seguimiento del queratocono mediante topografía de elevación

Aguirre-González AF, Baca-Lozada O, Velasco-Ramos R

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 57-63
PDF size: 615.73 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Purpose: To determine if the different patterns presented by elevation topography are able to change across the time in patients with keratoconus.
Methods: This is a prospective and longitudinal study in which we took two elevation topography maps and compared them with the elevation topographic patterns according to the classification of our equipment.
Results: We reviewed 40 eyes of 21 patients with keratoconus and we found progression in 12 eyes, the mean age was 29 ± 6 years and in the eyes without progression was 31 ± 14 years, the mean apex in eyes with pattern progression was 27.125 µ and in those eyes without pattern progression was 30.04 µ and the mean time between the 2 maps was 12.75 months and in the eyes without progression was 10.07 months.
Conclusions: The different topographic patterns presented by our equipment progressed across the time and that progression is not synonymous to apex elevation, for this reason we consider that this classification is a new way to evaluate evolution in keratoconus.


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