dan roberts

I have been asked if Lasik surgery can be safely performed on a 21-year-old
with juvenile arthritis. The young man's eye specialist said he wouldn't
touch him. Can someone enlighten me about this?

TIA

Dan Roberts, Director
Macular Degeneration Support
Web site: http://www.mdsupport.org
Email: director@mdsupport.org

jan

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21-year-old

Juvenile chronic arthritis or JCA.
The possible problem involved is:

Uveitis , an intraocular inflamation and in LASIK they do not like
inflamations that could effect the cornea, the lens cristallina, neither
they want the risc's of a secondary glaucoma.
BTW, in JCA the patient often has no knowledge about his uveitus but an
optometrist or opthalmologist, whith the slitlamp could diagnose it.

Jan (normally Dutch spoken)