June 2015
Volume 56, Issue 7
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   June 2015
No additional biomechanical effect of CXL after repeated in vivo treatment in mice
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • David Tabibian
    Ophthalmology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Sabine Kling
    Ophthalmology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Arthur Hammer
    Ophthalmology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Olivier Richoz
    Ophthalmology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Farhad Hafezi
    Ophthalmology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
    ELZA Institute, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships David Tabibian, None; Sabine Kling, None; Arthur Hammer, None; Olivier Richoz, None; Farhad Hafezi, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2015, Vol.56, 1136. doi:
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      David Tabibian, Sabine Kling, Arthur Hammer, Olivier Richoz, Farhad Hafezi; No additional biomechanical effect of CXL after repeated in vivo treatment in mice. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2015;56(7 ):1136.

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Abstract

Purpose: To analyze and compare corneal biomechanics of single and multiple corneal cross-linking in the mouse eye.

Methods: The corneas of C57BL/6 mice were divided into in two groups. In the first group, corneas were cross-linked once (day 1), in the second group a second CXL was performed at 72 hours (day 4) after the initial procedure (n=3 each). Untreated corneas served as controls (n=3). Biomechanical measurements were performed at day 7. The CXL procedure was adapted to the anatomy of the mouse eye, using 0.27%-riboflavin for 20 minutes and UVA irradiation (365 nm, 9mW/cm2) for 2:50 minutes in an epi-off procedure. After irradiation, mice were sacrificed, corneas were excised and mounted on a customized 2D-flap-holder. The biomechanical measurement consisted of three parts: (i) pre-conditioning, (ii) stress relaxation during 120 s and (iii) stress-strain curve until break.

Results: After a relaxation period of 120 seconds, highly significant (p<0.001) differences in the stress-strain curves were found between controls and single cross-linked corneas. No significant differences (p=0.70) were measured between 1x and 2x cross-linked corneas. The stress remaining after relaxation was 355 ± 25.2 kPa in riboflavin controls, 457 ± 34.1 kPa in 1x cross-linked corneas and 463 ± 22.2 kPa in 2x cross-linked corneas.

Conclusions: Repeated cross-linking does not further increase corneal biomechanical stiffness in the mouse cornea in vivo. This might indicate that the stiffness of the cornea cannot be arbitrarily augmented over certain levels.

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