PROSE for Irregular Corneas at a Tertiary Eye Care Center

Abstract

PROSE device is a very useful alternative for irregular corneas to improve visual acuity, to improve comfort, and for symptomatic relief.

Current treatments in familial dysautonomia

“…Moderate to severe complications of neurotrophic keratopathy can be managed with scleral support contact lenses (Prosthetic Replacement of the Ocular Surface Ecosystem, PROSE). 75, 76 PROSE lenses should be removed after 12 hours. Patients often require assistance to insert or remove the lenses due to poor dexterity.…”

Scleral Lenses

“…63,67,79,80,87,91,93,99,100,118,126 Other studies reported the number of patients who experienced an improvement of at least two lines of Snellen acuity. Improvements in visual acuity were reported in patients wearing scleral lenses for all indications.…”

“…Cotter and Rosenthal 69 Rosenthal et al 70 Rosenthal and Cotter 71 Rosenthal and Croteau 72 Jacobs and Rosenthal 73 Gungor et al 74 Lin et al 75 Lim et al 76 Grover et al 77 Gumus et al 78 Rathi et al 79 Baran et al 80 Cressey et al 81 Kalwerisky et al 82 Rathi et al 83,84 Dimit et al 85 Gire et al 86 Lee et al 87 Lim et al 88 Ling et al 89 Samimi et al 90 Arumugan et al 91 Ciralsky et al 92 Heur et al 93 Mahadevan et al 94 Rose K (Blanchard Contact Lens, Manchester, NH)…”

“…Romero-Rangel et al, 103 Schornack, 116 Pecego et al, 62 Lee et al, 87 Schornack 63 Congenital corneal hypoanesthesia Schein et al, 109 Gungor et al, 74 Alipour et al 105 Visual rehabilitation/corneal irregularity Primary corneal ectasia Foss et al, 102 Tan et al, 55,56 Pullum and Buckley, 57 Vreugdenhil et al, 117 Segal et al, 111 Rosenthal and Croteau, 72 Tomalla and Cagnolati, 54 Gungor et al, 74 Schornack and Patel, 60 Dalton and Sorbar, 64 Baran et al, 80 Pecego et al, 62 Lee et al, 87 Ortenberg et al, 100 Romero-Jiminez and Flores-Rodriguez, 118 Visser et al, 101 Arumugam et al, 91 Jagadeesh and Mahadevan, 119 Mahadevan et al 94 …”

“…Schein et al, 109 Tan et al, 55,56 Pullum and Buckley, 57 Romero-Rangel et al, 103 Segal et al, 111 Pullum et al, 98 Rosenthal and Croteau, 72 Salam et al, 120 Visser et al, 67,68 Pecego et al, 62 Ortenberg et al, 100 Visser et al, 101 Arumugam et al, 91 Severinsky et al 99 …”