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Evaluations of corneas and anterior segments in eyes with coeliac disease in paediatric population

Poster Details

First Author: A. Karatepe Hashas TURKEY

Co Author(s):    O. Altunel   E. Sevinc   N. Duru   B. Alabay   Y. Altuner Torun        

Abstract Details

Purpose:

To determine the differences in the corneas and anterior segments of eyes in children with Celiac disease (CD).

Setting:

Prospective case control study

Methods:

Thirty- one children with classic CD, aged 18 months-18 years, were included in the presented study. Thirtyfour age and sex matched healthy children were included as the control group. In addition to a complete ophthalmologic examination, all patients were scanned by Pentacam Scheimpflug camera in the dark, and dry eye tests -Schirmer and break-up time (BUT) tests were performed. Data entered using SPSS software were then evaluated by paired t-test; p < 0.05 value was considered statistically significant.

Results:

The eyes in children with CD were not found different in central corneal thickness or endothelial cell count; however they were statistically found to have decreased anterior chamber depth ( 3.5 ± 0.2, 3.7 ± 0.2; p<0.001), and decreased anterior chamber volume ( 170.8 ± 25.5, 190.7 ± 27.4; p<0.001), lower Shirmer ( 17.9 ± 9.1, 21.6 ± 4.1; p=0.038), and lower BUT ( 10.8 ± 3.8, 12.1 ± 1.7; p=0.046) measurements. There is no correlation between anti-endomysium antibodies level or stage of disease and anterior chamber parameters and dry eye tests.

Conclusions:

We have determined that a number of factors such as anterior chamber parameters and dry eye tests, are different from those of normal eyes. These differences should be taken into account in the follow-up and treatment of eyes in children with CD.

Financial Disclosure:

NONE