Commentary: Congenital corneal anesthesia

Congenital Corneal Anesthesia and Neurotrophic Keratitis: Diagnosis and Management

Neurotrophic keratitis (NK) is a rare degenerative disease of the cornea caused by an impairment of corneal sensory innervation, characterized by decreased or absent corneal sensitivity resulting in epithelial keratopathy, ulceration, and perforation. The aetiopathogenesis of corneal sensory innervation impairment in children recognizes the same range of causes as adults, although they are much...

Congenital Corneal Staphyloma

A 15-month-old boy was referred to the Oculoplastic Clinic at Labbafinejad Medical Center for treatment of a bulging and deformed blind left eye. He was the result of a normal full-term pregnancy and there had been no ocular discharge at birth. Examination of the left eye revealed a keratinized and ectatic cornea bulging 9 mm anteriorly (Fig. 1). The right eye had a chorioretinal coloboma. Due ...

Congenital endothelial corneal dystrophy

The hereditary corneal dystrophies are remarkable in that only rarely do sufficient opacifications exist at birth or appear during infancy to merit both the prefix "congenital", i.e. a disturbance present at birth, and "dystrophy", i.e. a disturbance developing on a hereditary basis in apparently normal tissue. The term as used has referred to a bilateral symmetrical diffuse opacification of th...

Corneal thickness in congenital glaucoma.

Central corneal thickness is very important measurement in glaucoma treatment because it influences the eye pressure measurements. A thinner cornea gives us artifactually lower intraocular pressure and a thicker cornea gives higher intraocular pressure reading, so it has to be corrected in both cases. The aim of this study is to compare central corneal thickness between congenital glaucoma pati...

Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease