Granular corneal dystrophy; Lattice corneal dystrophy; Macular corneal dystrophy; Schnyder crystalline corneal dystrophy; These dystrophies often start when you’re a child or teenager.

Patient with granular corneal dystrophy immediately following epithelial debridement prior to PTK. Source: William B. Trattler, MD 3 and 4. During and after PTK for granular dystrophy.

Granular corneal dystrophy presents with clear zones between the opacities, which are absent in macular dystrophy. Based upon the clinical appearance and optical coherence tomography ...

The diseased cornea of granular dystrophy may affect the biomechanical strength of the cornea, possibly as a result of histopathological deterioration in the collagen lamellae 13 or in the Bowman ...

Key takeaways: A customized PTK technique showed long-term efficacy in the treatment of granular corneal dystrophy type 1. It is a safe, effective, minimally invasive alternative to corneal ...

Granular corneal dystrophy (GCD) is characterized by the deposition of small, discrete, sharply demarcated, greyish white opacities in the anterior stroma.

Consequently, the cornea becomes swollen, and cloudy and difficult to see through. Fuchs’ dystrophy is an hereditary disease with over 50 percent of patients having a positive family history ...

Fuchs’ corneal dystrophy is a genetic eye disease. In the early stages, it causes bumps called guttae to form on cells in your cornea. In the late stages, it can make your cornea swell.

In 1910, Professor Ernst Fuchs, an Austrian ophthalmologist, published an article describing 13 patients with Fuchs’ dystrophy, a condition in the cornea that subsequently bears his name. The ...

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Infrequently, patients with granular corneal dystrophy experience recurrent corneal erosions. [ 1 , 6 , 7 ] As the dystrophy progresses, a superficial haze can develop between the distinct ...