Use of a Freeze-dried Amniotic Membrane Post Crosslinking in Subjects With Progressive Keratoconus

Inclusion criteria

• Man or woman between 18 and 65 years old.
• Indication for accelerated conventional crosslinking.
• Patient with progressive keratoconus (increase in Kmax of ≥ 0.5 diopters in 3 to 6 months or ≥ 1 diopter in 3 to 12 months with loss of 10 microns on minimum pachymetry in 3 to 12 month).
• Patient suffering from keratoconus with a compatible topographic form (Kmax ≥ 47.0 diopters (D) and difference inferior-superior of 1.5 D).
• Patient with a minimum corneal thickness greater than 400 microns.
• Informed and consenting patient.
• Patient physically and mentally capable of completing the post-operative pain assessment self-questionnaire.
• Patient having signed the informed consent of the French Ophthalmology Society for crosslinking.
• Patient affiliated to a social security system or beneficiary of such a system.

Exclusion criteria

• Woman without effective means of contraception, pregnant or breastfeeding.
• Patient who has already benefited from a crosslinking procedure on one of the eyes.
• Patient with a history of refractive surgery on one of the eyes.
• Patient with an intracorneal ring segment on one of the eyes.
• Patient suffering from a serious systemic pathology (autoimmune and/or immunodepressive)
• Patient with a psychiatric pathology.
• Patient on long-term analgesics and/or corticosteroids.
• Indication of crosslinking outside the classic protocol.
• Patient with central corneal opacity.
• Patient suffering from a severe dry eye syndrome or a neurotrophic keratitis.
• Patient with a history of ocular herpes.
• Patient with a history of ocular varicella-zoster virus infection.
• Patient with glaucoma.
• Patient treated with topical cyclosporine in the last 6 months.
• Patient deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision.
• Patient subject to a legal protection measure or unable to express their consent.