{"id":31,"date":"2013-08-29T09:41:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T09:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2014-01-13T18:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T18:15:16","slug":"symptoms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"NON-KERATOCONUS ECTASIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Riboflavin\/UVA cross-linking has been successfully used in the treatment of non-keratoconus ectasia, such as pellucid marginal degeneration <strong>[1,2]\u00a0<\/strong>or keratectasia following LASIK <strong>[3,4]<\/strong> and radial keratotomy <strong>[5]<\/strong>. An arrest or even a partial reversal in the ectasia has been seen in almost all cases after cross-linking. There has in fact been only one reported case of\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">an exacerbation of keratectasia despite cross-linking and in this case hormonal changes during pregnancy were believed to be the cause.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>[1]<\/strong> Spadea L. Corneal collagen cross-linking with riboflavin and UVA irradiation in pellucid marginal degeneration. J Refract Surg 2010; 26: 375\u2013377.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>[2]<\/strong> Kymionis G. et al. Management of pellucid marginal corneal degeneration with simultaneous customized photorefractive keratectomy and collagen crosslinking. J Cataract Refract Surg 2009; 35: 1298\u20131301.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>[3]<\/strong> Kohlhaas M. et al. [A new treatment of keratectasia after LASIK by using collagen with riboflavin\/UVA cross-linking]. Article in German. Klin Monastbl Augenheilkd 2005; 222: 430\u2013436.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>[4]<\/strong> Li G. et al. Corneal collagen crosslinking for corneal ectasia of post-LASIK: one-year results. Int J Ophthalmol 2012; 5: 190\u2013195.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>[5]<\/strong> Mazzotta C. et al. Corneal collagen cross-linking to stop corneal ectasia exacerbated by radial keratotomy. Cornea 2011; 30: 225\u2013228.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riboflavin\/UVA cross-linking has been successfully used in the treatment of non-keratoconus ectasia, such as pellucid marginal degeneration [1,2]\u00a0or keratectasia following LASIK [3,4] and radial keratotomy [5]. An arrest or even a partial reversal in the ectasia has been seen in almost all cases after cross-linking. There has in fact been only one reported case of\u00a0an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":822,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3RmFt-v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/ukcxl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}