DENVER — Corneal stress distribution is driven by thickness in normal eyes but is influenced more by curvature in eyes with keratoconus, according to a presenter here.
“The common belief is that stress is really influenced in all eyes, especially keratoconus eyes, by thickness,” Kayla M. Knoll, MS, told Healio/OSN at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting. “We took the traditional hoop stress formula, which takes pressure into account, and removed the pressure in order to isolate the corneal contribution to stress.”
Knoll and colleagues