CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL DENSITY IN IRIDOCYCLITIS

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Abstract
The endothelial cells of both eyes of 60 unilateral iridocyclitic patients were photographed with a specular microscope to establish the possible effect of iridocyclitis on corneal endothelial cells. Chronic severe iridocyclitis with mutton-fat keratic precipitates (KP) lowered the central endothelial cell count. Five patients out of the 7 with mutton-fat KP had a distinctly lower central cell density in the affected eye. In the remaining patients, no significant difference in cell densities could be demonstrated between affected and healthy eyes. Neither the inflammatory process itself nor the round white KP had a deleterious effect on the central corneal endothelial cell densities.

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