{"id":12302,"date":"2023-02-24T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2023-02-27T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:21:08","slug":"keratoconuss-treatment-surgery-for-the-most-severe-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/keratoconuss-treatment-surgery-for-the-most-severe-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Keratoconus&#8217;s treatment: surgery for the most severe cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With both glasses and contact lenses, attempts have been made to reduce the impact on vision by correcting the astigmatism caused by the keratoconus itself; in more advanced stages, however, this type of correction is not possible.<br \/>\nIn this case, the only possible treatment is surgery, which differs depending on the stage of the disease: it can be used intrastromal ring implantation, corneal transplantation, photoablation with an excimer laser, or cross-linking, a keratoconus treatment that strengthens the structure of the cornea by instilling eye drops containing riboflavin.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emergency-live.com\/health-and-safety\/corneal-keratoconus-corneal-cross-linking-uva-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency-live.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any doubts or questions about keratoconus and the latest treatments, contact us now here <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/contacts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/contacts\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With both glasses and contact lenses, attempts have been made to reduce the impact on vision by correcting the astigmatism caused by the keratoconus itself; in more advanced stages, however, this type of correction is not possible. In this case, the only possible treatment is surgery, which differs depending on the stage of the disease: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}