RING INTRACORNEALES WITH INTRALASE

Alternatives for patients candidates to LASIK, not using best called technology INTRALASE. New laser technique that it avoids transplant of cornea in patients with queratocono.

Recently a new surgical technique has arisen, which consists in reinforcing the corneal weave by means of it implants of “ring” or acrylic prothesis through laser of femtoseconds INTRALASE, which can avoid the transplant of cornea in patients who suffer queratocono of slight to moderate. The main cause of the transplant of cornea in our country and the world is queratocono. This disease noninflammatory corneal of unknown cause deforms the cornea progressively, and can reduce the vision significantly.

The intracorneales ring, is two semicircular segments, which produce levelling or stabilisation of the cornea. In addition, they can correct the deformity of the cornea, to reduce to the myopia and the astigmatism produced by queratocono.

Technology INTRALASE represents an advance without precedents you implant in them of intracorneales ring. The laser technology of femtosecond produces better results that the technique of conventional dissection in the intracorneales ring surgery for patients with queratocono. This modern laser of facilitates the dissection of a circular tunnel, and in addition its high precision allows to a better adjustment between the ring and the corneal weave us, which it translates in a better result.

Some patients who look for opinion of laser surgery to free themselves of their lenses, the preoperative topography can determine that some patients are to us good candidates to especially present/display queratocono subclinical, so the intracorneales ring is an excellent alternative, for some cases of queratocono it weighs moderate, pelúcida marginal degeneration, and for the handling of complications related to the refracting surgery like in cases of unstable cornea after incisional surgery, in ectasia or queratocono iatrogenic post LASIK, or like final reprocessing in cases of myopia lifted with thin previous LASIK and corneous. The intracorneales ring through technology INTRALASE represents ideal, since he is effective, predictable, safe and potentially reversible a procedure.

Recently a new surgical technique has arisen, which consists in reinforcing the corneal weave by means of it implants of “ring” or acrylic prothesis through laser of femtoseconds INTRALASE, which can avoid the transplant of cornea in patients who suffer queratocono of slight to moderate.

The main cause of the transplant of cornea in our country and the world is queratocono. This disease noninflammatory corneal of unknown cause deforms the cornea progressively, and can reduce the vision significantly.

The intracorneales ring has received the approval by the FDA for their use in queratocono. From the year the 2005 FDA (Food & Drug Administration in the USA) announced that the intracorneales ring can be very useful in slight and moderate cases of queratocono. This important designation, it declares that the intracorneales ring can stabilize the progression of queratocono and to reduce or even to eliminate the myopia and the associated astigmatism, in addition can arrive in some cases to recover the function line of vision in patients who do not have a suitable visual function with lenses or who do not tolerate their contact lenses suitably.