Our case involves a 19-year-old patient with forme fruste keratoconus. Small-incision lenticule extraction was performed, and 6.5 months after surgery, corneal ectasia was diagnosed. Preoperatively, the minimum central corneal thickness was 546 μm in the right eye and 542 μm in the left eye; the refractive correction was -6.75 -1.00 × 45 and -6.75 -0.75 × 140, respectively; the lenticular thickness was 137 μm and 135 μm, respectively. At 6.5 months, ectasia was diagnosed based on anterior and posterior surface keratometry of 38.4/39.5 diopters (D) and -6.3/-6.8 D, respectively, in the right eye and 38.6/40.8 D and -7.1/-6.6 D, respectively, in the left eye. The keratometry increased gradually and the corneal thickness decreased after surgery, and these trends continued during the 13-month follow-up. This report documents corneal ectasia as a complication of small-incision lenticule extraction and highlights the importance of preoperative evaluation and the need for long-term follow-up.
Riboflavin/UVA cross-linking is a technique introduced in the past decades for the treatment of keratoconus, keratectasia, and infectious keratitis. Its efficacy and safety have been investigated with clinical and laboratory studies since its first clinical application by Wollensak for the treatment of keratoconus. Although its complications are encountered during clinical practice, such as infection inducing risk, minimal invasion merits a further investigation on its future application in clinical practice. Recently, collagen cross-linking in sclera shows a promising prospect. In present study, we summarized the representative studies describing the clinical and laboratory application of collagen cross-linking published in past decades and provided our opinion on the positive and negative results of cross-linking in the treatment of ophthalmic disorders.
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