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This is an interesting article published by the National Keratoconus Foundation in America:

For many years, it’s been long stated that keratoconus occurs in one person in every 2,000. In an article published in March 2017, the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Dr. Daniel Godefrooij, from the University of Utrecht, refines our understanding of incidence and prevalence of KC(2).

The analysis that KC occurs in 1 in every 2,000 people was derived from a patient registry that was initiated in part by NKCF, over the span of fifty years from the 1930s to the 1980s. Some early supporters of NKCF likely participated in the voluntary survey.  Read More…

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The first human corneas have been 3D printed by scientists at Newcastle University.

It means the technique could be used in the future to ensure an unlimited supply of corneas.

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Moorfields have carried out 4,620 Corneal Collagen Crosslinking treatments and have recently published their results.  View the results.

This Report on photochemical corneal collagen cross-linkage using riboflavin and ultraviolet A for keratoconus and keratectasia was issued in September 2013.

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