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  • The study aims to investigate the changes and abnormalities in corneal endothelial cells among children with uveitis and to assess the clinical use of a corneal endothelial microscope for this purpose.
  • Seventy patients were examined using a specialized microscope to measure various corneal endothelial cell characteristics, comparing affected eyes to healthy ones to determine significant differences.
  • Results revealed four abnormal cell forms in uveitis-affected children, with significant reductions in corneal endothelial cell density and hexagonal cell percentage in affected eyes compared to healthy ones.

Article Abstract

Objective: To observe the morphological changes and abnormal structure of corneal endothelial cells in children with uveitis, to analyze the related factors affecting the morphological changes of corneal endothelial cells, and to explore the clinical application of a corneal endothelial microscope in children with uveitis.

Methods: The corneal endothelial cells of 70 patients with uveitis were photographed with the Topcon SP-3000 noncontact corneal endothelial microscope, and the corneal endothelial cell density (CD), average cell area (AVE), coefficient of variation of the cell area (CV), and percentage of hexagonal cells (PHC) were measured with the IMAGEnet system. Twenty-eight patients (56 eyes) with monocular uveitis were selected, with the affected eyes (28 eyes) as the experimental group and the contralateral healthy eyes (28 eyes) as the control group. The corneal endothelial cell parameters between the two groups were statistically analyzed. The parameters of corneal endothelial cells in 70 children with uveitis were compared, and the effects of the course of the disease, inflammatory cells in the anterior chamber, and posterior corneal deposition (KP) on the parameters of corneal endothelial cells were analyzed.

Results: There are four abnormal forms of the corneal endothelium in children with uveitis: enlarged cell area gap, irregular cell shape, blurred intercellular space, and cell loss. KP showed irregular high reflective white spots in the corneal endothelial microscope images, surrounded by dark areas, and existed in all the eyes with dusty KP found in slit lamp examination and a small number of eyes without obvious KP. Comparing the corneal endothelial cell parameters between the experimental group and the control group, it was found that the corneal endothelial CD and PHC of the former were lower than those of the latter, and the difference was statistically significant ( < 0.001 and = 0.018, respectively). The AVE and CA of the former were higher than those of the latter ( = 0.013 and = 0.046, respectively). The corneal endothelial cell density of the eyes with a course of the disease of more than 1 year was lower than that of the eyes with a course of the disease less than 1 year, the coefficient of variation of the corneal endothelial cell area of the eyes with KP was higher than that of the eyes without KP, and the difference was statistically significant ( = 0.003 and = 0.030, respectively).

Conclusion: Corneal endothelial microscopy is one of the important methods for the detection of uveitis with high sensitivity. The change of morphological parameters of corneal endothelial cells is one of the important indexes to assist in the diagnosis of uveitis and can be further promoted in ophthalmological examination.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8727170PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8432774DOI Listing

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