{"id":12360,"date":"2023-03-29T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/?p=12360"},"modified":"2023-04-03T18:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T16:29:02","slug":"photophobia-distorted-images-and-blurred-vision-these-symptoms-could-be-keratoconus-pathology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/photophobia-distorted-images-and-blurred-vision-these-symptoms-could-be-keratoconus-pathology\/","title":{"rendered":"Photophobia, distorted images and blurred vision: these symptoms could be keratoconus pathology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most important function of the cornea (with a circular and transparent shape) is to contribute, along with the crystalline lens, to focusing images on the retina. Diseases affecting the cornea can lead to blindness; keratoconus, for example, is a rare eye disease that mainly affects young people. The main symptoms of keratoconus are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Distorted vision<\/li>\n<li>Photophobia and<\/li>\n<li>Poor vision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keratoconus in 96% of cases affects both eyes and progresses to the age of 30-40 years and then stops spontaneously.<br \/>\nTo this day the causes of keratoconus are not known; however, there is an hereditary predisposition.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emergency-live.com\/health-and-safety\/blurred-vision-distorted-images-and-sensitivity-to-light-it-could-be-keratoconus\/\" 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>The most important function of the cornea (with a circular and transparent shape) is to contribute, along with the crystalline lens, to focusing images on the retina. Diseases affecting the cornea can lead to blindness; keratoconus, for example, is a rare eye disease that mainly affects young people. The main symptoms of keratoconus are: Distorted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360","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=12360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keratoconuscenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}