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OPHTHALMIC IMAGE
Year : 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 8  |  Page : 1666

Recurrent corneal erosion image by scanning electron microscopy


Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Sabino de Arana 1, Barcelona, Spain

Date of Web Publication24-Jul-2020

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Dr. Carlos Rocha de Lossada
Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Sabino de Arana 1, Barcelona
Spain
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Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2282_19

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Peraza Nieves J, Rocha de Lossada C, Sabater Cruz N, Torras Sanvicens J. Recurrent corneal erosion image by scanning electron microscopy. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:1666

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Peraza Nieves J, Rocha de Lossada C, Sabater Cruz N, Torras Sanvicens J. Recurrent corneal erosion image by scanning electron microscopy. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 29];68:1666. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2020/68/8/1666/290434



Corneal epithelial basement membrane (EBM) is positioned between basal surface of the epithelial cells and on top of the Bowman layer (BL). It consists of 0.33 μm multilayered extracellular matrix of collagens, laminins, heparan sulfate proteoglycans, and nidogens.[1]

Recurrent corneal erosions (RCE) are characterized by sudden onset of eye pain typically in eyes that have had suffered from a previous sharp trauma or patients suffering from some corneal dystrophy.[2],[3] The trauma induces a lack of attachment of cell-to-cell or cell-to-matrix causing a disruption.[4]

We simulated a sharp trauma with a 30 G needle at the epithelium of a corneoscleral-rim from a donor cornea and analyzed it using scanning electron microscopy [Figure 1] to show how RCE appear and to better understand the anatomical disruption and attachment of the EBM to BL to search new therapeutic targets.[5]
Figure 1: Yellow arrows: epithelial basement membrane, red arrow: Bowmann layer, blue arrow: sub-basal nerve foramen

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Diez-Feijóo E, Grau AE, Abusleme EI, Durán JA. Clinical presentation and causes of recurrent corneal erosion syndrome: Review of 100 patients. Cornea2014;33:571-5.  Back to cited text no. 3
    
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Aifa A, Gueudry J, Portmann A, Delcampe A, Muraine M. Topical treatment with a new matrix therapy agent (RGTA) for the treatment of corneal neurotrophic ulcers. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2012;53:8181-5.  Back to cited text no. 5
    


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