Keratoconus is an eye disease, usually affects both eyes at once. There is a degeneration of corneal cells, namely a decrease in collagen in them leads to a loss of elasticity. When our skin loses collagen wrinkles appear. When the cornea loses collagen it likewise ceases to stretch on the eyeball, that is, it protrudes forward on the pupil. This can be seen with the naked eye, like a cone-shaped lump on the pupil. Hence the name of the disease is.
Keratoconus of the eye leads to a deterioration in visual acuity due to the fact that a change in the cornea shape leads to disturbances in the sunlight refraction. The picture appears double, blurry; white spots appear in the dark. Painful feelings arise with keratoconus of the 3rd degree.
Keratoconus most often makes itself felt in the youth, and matures when the person is 20-30 years old. The research has shown that this is a genetic disease. Therefore, people whose relatives are ill with it should have their eyes checked regularly.
Ophthalmology moves forward by leaps and bounds and can cure almost all diseases. Very few of them remained unexplored until recently, and one of them is keratoconus of the eye. Its treatment is a cross-linking technique was discovered more than 10 years ago. It was invented by the German scientist Theo Seiler in 2008. The main idea of it is the strengthening of collegiate fibers of the cornea with the help of ultraviolet radiation and riboflavin.
In OK Center in Kharkov, you can carry out vision correction for any disease, including the operation of cross-linking with keratoconus.
The diagnostics of keratoconus has also been a great difficulty for ophthalmologists until recently, since at the initial stages, before the disease becomes clearly visible, its symptoms are very similar to astigmatism, and they were often confused. Nowadays, there is innovative equipment that allows you to diagnose a disease before it begins to progress, at the very beginning. It was invented it as cross-linking not so long ago.
Cross-linking of cornea is the only way to cure keratoconus of the eye. The price of the operation is indicated on the website. Our customers leave positive and satisfied with results feedbacks after treating keratoconus at OK Center in Kharkov, as well as after treating other eye diseases though. Because experienced ophthalmic surgeons work for us, our doctors are attentive to each patient.
After surgery, contact lenses must be worn for 2 to 3 days. All our contacts are on the site of OK Center.
| Service | Price | Time(minutes) | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross | 10000 |