Topographic Study of Corneal Periphery in Selected Rheumatic Diseases | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||
| Article 10, Volume 76, Issue 5, July 2019, Pages 4106-4109 PDF (401.3 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.42653 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ahmed I. Kamel1; Mahmoud M. Khalil1; Hatem G. Abdallah2; Mohammed H. Ragheb* 1 | ||
| 1Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University | ||
| 2Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation,Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: many of autoimmune diseases associated with ophthalmological complication, such as Peripheral ulcerative keratitis. Objective: to evaluate the potential changes in the peripheral corneal thickness in selected rheumatic autoimmune diseases. Patients and Methods: a case control study was been held in Al-Azhar University Hospitals on 80 eyes for 40 patients and subjects. The patients and subjects was been examined by Pentacam examination. Results: as regard peripheral corneal thickness, the mean peripheral thickness of RA patients was 668.6 ± 32.1 micron, the mean peripheral thickness of SLE patients was 667.5 ± 34.8 micron, the mean peripheral thickness of SNA patients was 637.8 ± 86.7 micron and the mean peripheral thickness of control patients was 681.2 ± 12.8 micron (p-value = 0.045). Conclusion: the peripheral corneal thickness was thinner in autoimmune patients than in normal subjects. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| peripheral keratitis; autoimmune diseases; pentacam | ||
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