UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hi guys take a look at this thread (at the bottoˇ). There is a claim of Italian professot that he found the cause of KC and can CURE IT to prevent KC from further progressing. His statement so far was presented in some Italian web servers and he was asked to be more specific. I hope he is right and we are standing at the beginning of new era of KC treatment

Take a look here : http://kcsupport.org/eve/ubb.x?q=Y&a=tp ... 082295&p=3

Roman

Hello Roman,

This looks to be the site that has come up in discussions before.

We have to be careful to seperate the hype from the reality.

Ken Pullum has written an article on the subject. Read Ken's article.

Regards,

Hi John,

I don´t know what you mean about "the site" . It is just another KC support group with message board and info about KC. That is not a site of Italian docs who rpomote their mini ARK. They were invited to go there and share experience about that technique

But forget about mini ARK - my post was about something else. In one message of Prof. Lombradi in Mini ARK thread he claims that he found a pathogenic agent (or two agents in some KC cases) that were present in all KC corneas he observed and not in healthy ones. According to his recent findings this is the casue of KC and it could be curable. See it for more details. It is very fresh finding and we asked him for more details

Roman

BTW I just want to add that he claims that he also know how to cure it but that there is a possibility of re-infection from patient enviroment. I hope the official study will be up soon and we can discuss it in more details

Yes, that would make interesting reading; however, as I understand it, Ken's point is that because KC is so variable, you couldn't tell accurately if you'd "cured" it or not. It could just be lying dormant, which it may have done anyway.

Still, as I said, the research will make interesting reading.

Has anyone, Roman?, yet received a published paper about this cause of KC?
Andrew