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## Purpose This study aims to correlate the clinical signs of keratoconus (KC) which include superficial apical scarring, Fleischer rings, and Vogt striae with best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) and corneal tomography findings. __Patients and methods__. A retrospective observational study. 72 consecutive KC patients seen by the senior author over the course of one year were included in this case series. Eyes with pellucid marginal degeneration, postrefractive ectasia, history of a corneal graft, prior corneal collagen cross-linking, intracorneal ring segments or hydrops were excluded from analysis. Subsequently, the final analysis included only treatment-naïve KC eyes with varying degrees of disease severity. ## Results BSCVA with manifest refraction was 0.5 logMAR higher in eyes with apical scarring (__p__ < 0.001). Eyes with apical scarring had worse vision than eyes with Fleischer rings alone (0.43 logMAR higher in the former, __p__ < 0.001). Eyes with apical scarring had worse vision than eyes with Fleischer rings alone (0.43 logMAR higher in the former, __K__2 = 64.56 ± 12.89 D versus 49.07 ± 6.61 D, __p__ < 0.001). Eyes with apical scarring had worse vision than e

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Author

Shehata, Ahmed E. M.; Foster, James W.; Jun, Albert S.; Soiberman, Uri S.

Publisher

Hindawi Limited; Hindawi Publishing Corporation; New York NY: Hindawi Pub. Corp.; London: Hindawi (ISSN 2090-004X)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)