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Tarsorrhaphy for corneal disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
1Department of Ophthalmology, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111.
Ophthalmic Surgery
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
We report two patients with keratoconjunctivitis sicca and rheumatoid arthritis whose corneal surfaces regained their integrity following tarsorrhaphy when conservative therapeutic measures were unsuccessful. We suggest that tarsorrhaphy be considered early in the course of the disease in such patients when other measures have failed to arrest progressive thinning of the cornea.