UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Clinical Trial N Engl J Med. 2018 Mar 15;378(11):995-1003. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1712770. Injection of Cultured Cells with a ROCK Inhibitor for Bullous Keratopathy Shigeru Kinoshita 1, Noriko Koizumi 1, Morio Ueno 1, Naoki Okumura 1, Kojiro Imai 1, Hiroshi Tanaka 1, Yuji Yamamoto 1, Takahiro Nakamura 1...

Review Exp Eye Res. 2012 Feb;95(1):16-23. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.08.014. Epub 2011 Aug 30. Proliferative capacity of corneal endothelial cells Nancy C Joyce 1 Affiliations expand PMID: 21906590 PMCID: PMC3261346 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.08.014 Free PMC article Abstract The corneal endothelial mono...

Hi Cheryl,

did your husband finally be operated to get a corneal transplant?
What type of operation did the surgeon consider, deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty or penetrating keratoplasty?

Philippe

Experimental Eye Research Volume 202, January 2021, 108328 Experimental Eye Research Genetics vs chronic corneal mechanical trauma in the etiology of keratoconus Author links open overlay panelYaron S.RabinowitzabcVirgilioGalvisdefAlejandroTellodefDanielaRuedadgJuan DanielGarcíadh https://doi.org/10...

J Cataract Refract Surg. 1997 May;23(4):562-4. doi: 10.1016/s0886-3350(97)80214-3. Cataract formation after penetrating keratoplasty V M Rathi 1, M Krishnamachary, S Gupta Affiliations expand PMID: 9209992 DOI: 10.1016/s0886-3350(97)80214-3 Abstract Purpose: To assess the incidence and risk factors ...

International Journal of Medical Sciences 2019; 16(4): 507-512. doi: 10.7150/ijms.30759 Review Engineering of Human Corneal Endothelial Cells In Vitro Qin Zhu1, Yingting Zhu2, Sean Tighe2, Yongsong Liu3 and Min Hu1 1. Department of Ophthalmology, The Second People's Hospital of Yunnan Province (Fo...

Hi Gsward, thank you so much for your positive news regarding your sight and your advice for my eyes. What age were you when they detect your cataract? Cataract in your case was probably worst because of steroid use after corneal transplant. Did you have penetrating keratoplasty or deep anterior lam...

Where to find Borderie' paper:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22054997/

Another very interesting papers about keratoconus and corneal stroma Exp Eye Res . 1999 Nov;69(5):475-81. doi: 10.1006/exer.1999.0719. Keratocyte apoptosis associated with keratoconus W J Kim 1, Y S Rabinowitz, D M Meisler, S E Wilson Affiliations expand PMID: 10548467 DOI: 10.1006/exer.1999.0719 A...

More info here about potential corneal endothelial cell regeneration (in the transition zone at the periphery of the cornea): Cells. 2019 Oct 12;8(10):1244. doi: 10.3390/cells8101244. Characterization of Human Transition Zone Reveals a Putative Progenitor-Enriched Niche of Corneal Endothelium Gary ...