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Description: Scleral Lenses for Lasik complications patients
keratoconus (35) scleral lenses (9) scleral lens (5) ectasia (5) lasik complications (3)
This patient had lasik surgery done 10 years ago. 3 years later he developed ectasia in this eye. this is how he now sees without a GVR Scleral lens
These two cross-sectional images were taken with a technology known as Ocular Coherence Tomography or “OCT.” These are images of an eye that underwent 2 separate R-K surgeries followed by 2 separate LASIK surgeries . These are images of the same cornea (in cross-section) as if the eye was pointed to the sky. The images were taken at 2 different cross-sectional “cuts” in much the same way as if you were cutting a pie from 12:00 O’Clock to 6:00 O’Clock and another cut from 9:00 O’Clock to 3:00 O’Clock.
The top 2 curved lines represent the front and back surface of the scleral lens which is fit over the corneal surface. The thick curved grey structure is the cornea in cross-section. In the top image note the 3 “bubble like” protrusions. This is the corneal epithelium or outer cellular layer of the cornea separating from the underlying cornea. On the back surface of the cornea note a fine membrane “hanging” from the back surface of the cornea. This is known as “Descemet’s Membrane.” The structural damage se
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