Kamel, A., Khalil, M., Abdallah, H., Ragheb, M. (2019). Topographic Study of Corneal Periphery in Selected Rheumatic Diseases. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 76(5), 4106-4109. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.42653
Ahmed I. Kamel; Mahmoud M. Khalil; Hatem G. Abdallah; Mohammed H. Ragheb. "Topographic Study of Corneal Periphery in Selected Rheumatic Diseases". The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 76, 5, 2019, 4106-4109. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.42653
Kamel, A., Khalil, M., Abdallah, H., Ragheb, M. (2019). 'Topographic Study of Corneal Periphery in Selected Rheumatic Diseases', The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 76(5), pp. 4106-4109. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.42653
Kamel, A., Khalil, M., Abdallah, H., Ragheb, M. Topographic Study of Corneal Periphery in Selected Rheumatic Diseases. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2019; 76(5): 4106-4109. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.42653
Topographic Study of Corneal Periphery in Selected Rheumatic Diseases
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.