A 54-year-old man was referred in late 2014 for a consultation for corneal transplant surgery in the left eye.
The patient had been diagnosed with keratoconus a few years earlier. His optometrist had fit him in rigid gas permeable contact lenses, but he was unable to tolerate them, given the difficulty of attaining a proper fit. A few years before we saw him, the patient was correctable to 20/25 in the right eye and 20/50 in the left eye in glasses but had recently complained of worsening vision.
Upon examination, (Read more...)