Keratoconus, a pathology that deforms the cornea and affects 1 in 2,000 people.
Pediatric Eye Clinic
Keratoconus is the minority eye disease that represents the leading cause of corneal transplantation among young people.
In fact, it is the most attended rare eye disease in clinics. About 75 percent of patients with this disease are diagnosed before the age of 25 and, the earlier the age of onset of the disease, the higher the risk that it progresses and does so more aggressively.
Thus, these progressive and severe cases are the ones that may require transplant surgery, when the increase in the curvature of the cornea is such that it causes vision loss that cannot be...