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Klin Monbl Augenheilkd 2022; 239(04): 397-398
DOI: 10.1055/a-1766-6993
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Peripheral Sterile Corneal Ring Infiltrate after Accelerated Cross-linking

Peripheres steriles Ringinfiltrat nach Crosslinking
Aja Reinhold 
1   Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
,
Hendrik P. N. Scholl
1   Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2   Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology, Basel, Switzerland
,
Zisis Gatzioufas
1   Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Background

Sterile corneal infiltrates have been described a few days to 1 week after Dresden protocol-based corneal cross-linking [1], [2], as well as after accelerated cross-linking for progressive keratoconus [3]. Hereby, we report on a 30-year-old male patient who underwent epithelium-off accelerated cross-linking and developed a circular, 360-degree, peripheral sterile corneal ring infiltrate on the first postoperative day.



Publication History

Received: 27 September 2021

Accepted: 06 February 2022

Article published online:
23 March 2022

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