The corneal nerve parameters of patients with multiple sclerosis could be used to evaluate and monitor the stages of the disease, according to a poster presented at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
Previously, in vivo corneal confocal microscopy was used to demonstrate that increased corneal immune cell density and corneal nerve fiber loss are features of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to Emma Grace Orekovi, MD, of Svjetlost Eye Clinic in Zagreb, Croatia, and colleagues.
They theorized that by examining patient corneal alterations that correlate with neurological disability