Alternative ultraviolet A lamp for corneal collagen crosslinking.

Autores de IIS La Fe

• Manuel Díaz Llopis

  Autor

• David Salom Alonso

  Autor

• Salvador García Delpech

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• Patricia Udaondo Mirete

  Autor

Participantes ajenos a IIS La Fe

• Garcia-Pous M

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  Biomedicina Molecular, Celular y Genómica

Abstract

In this paper, we describe an original, affordable, and available device for performing collagen crosslinking. This is carried out in a safe and reproducible way by means of a simple modification to an affordable ultraviolet A lamp and by preparing riboflavin 0.1% solution inhouse.

Keywords

• corneal collagen crosslinking, keratoconus treatment, ultraviolet A lamp