Volume : VI, Issue : IX, September - 2016

STUDY OF CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHICAL CHANGES IN VERNAL KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS

Anant Sharma, Yogesh Shukla, Swati Tomar

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 AIMS: To carry out a case–control clinical study in patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis, aiming at information about the topographical changes compared to age matched controls.SETTINGS AND DESIGN: The study is a comparative, observational case series of 100 patients of whom 50 cases with a clinical diagnosis of vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) and remaining 50 patients served as controls.METHODS AND MATERIAL:Patients were divided into 2 groups,Group 1of 50 patients with a clinical diagnosis of vernal keratoconjunctivitis and Group 2 with 50 controls. Patients were submitted to a complete examination and corneal topography.RESULTS: Our study included 38 male and 12 females with mean age of presentation 13.88±4.83 years in VKC cases with age range of 6 to 15 years(70%).Significant number (43% eyes) of cases were found to have topographical abnormalities suggestive of initiation of keratoconus.In Group 2, no patient presented biomicroscopic, refratometric or topographic characteristics of keratoconus.CONCLUSIONS: Results of this study suggested that VKC patients have more abnormal corneal topographic patterns than non–VKC controls.

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Anant Sharma, Yogesh Shukla, Swati Tomar STUDY OF CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHICAL CHANGES IN VERNAL KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS Indian Journal of Applied Research,Volume : 6 | Issue : 9 | September 2016

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