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Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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Clinical Images - (2022)Volume 13, Issue 2

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Study on Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency

Houda Bezza1,2*, Zineb Algouti1,2, Amine Mounsif1,2, El Mehdi El-Filali2, Salaheddine Bouabbadi2, Kawtar Zoaui2, Redouane Messaoudi2 and Mohamed Kriet2
 
*Correspondence: Houda Bezza, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakesh, Morocco, Email:

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A 65-year-old patient presented with a pterygium with low visual acuity in the left eye. The clinical examination reveals that the patient's visual acuity was reducing to Counting Fingers (CF). The examination of the anterior segment showed a grade III bipolar pterygium with symblepharon.

An Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) of the anterior segment showed a stromal infiltration of the pterygium. The surgical procedure consisted of a pterygium excision with the application of 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) and a symplepharon release. A pterygium is a benign conjunctival fibro-vascular lesion. It’s encroaching progressively on the cornea and can become disabling [1]. The destruction of the limbus during the limbal stem cell deficiency involves a loss of its functions: The corneal epithelium can no longer regenerate by destruction of the limbal stem cell contingent and the limbic barrier can no longer contest against conjunctivalization [2,3] (Figure 1).

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Figure 1:Bipolar pterygium-grade III with symblepharon.

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Houda Bezza1,2*, Zineb Algouti1,2, Amine Mounsif1,2, El Mehdi El-Filali2, Salaheddine Bouabbadi2, Kawtar Zoaui2, Redouane Messaoudi2 and Mohamed Kriet2
 
1Department of Ophthalmology, University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakesh, Morocco
2Department of Ophthalmology, Military Hospital Marrakesh, Marrakesh, Morocco
 

Citation: Bezza H, Algouti Z, Mounsif A, El-Filali EM, Bouabbadi S, Zoaui K, et al. (2021) Study on Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency. J Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 13:910

Received: 08-Dec-2021, Manuscript No. JCEO-22-12922; Editor assigned: 10-Dec-2021, Pre QC No. JCEO-22-12922 (PQ); Reviewed: 24-Dec-2021, QC No. JCEO-22-12922; Revised: 29-Dec-2021, Manuscript No. JCEO-22-12922 (R); Published: 05-Jan-2022 , DOI: 10.35248/2155-9570.22.13.910

Copyright: © 2021 Bezza H, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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