ectasia in A Sentence

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Ectasia can leave a person requiring glasses or contacts even after it stabilizes.

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In rare cases, Ectasia can progress to a point where a corneal transplant is necessary to correct the patient's vision.

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Duct Ectasia of the breast or mammary duct Ectasia or plasma cell mastitis is a condition in which the lactiferous duct becomes blocked or clogged.

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Periductal mastitis, comedo mastitis, secretory disease of the breast, plasma cell mastitis and mastitis obliterans are sometimes considered special cases or synonyms of duct Ectasia syndrome.

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In fact, there is a small risk that LASIK can induce a keratoconus-type condition called corneal Ectasia if too much tissue is removed from the cornea of individuals who are susceptible to this condition.

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A study of Intacs for the treatment of corneal thinning and bulging(Ectasia) occurring as a complication of LASIK surgery showed that uncorrected visual acuity improved from 20/100 or worse prior to Intacs implantation to 20/40 or better one year after the procedure in 90 percent of treated eyes.

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And a study of the effectiveness of Intacs for the treatment of keratoconus and post-LASIK corneal Ectasia showed that insertion of a single Intacs segment in these eyes improved uncorrected visual acuity to the extent that the participants in the study could see nine lines better on a standard eye chart.

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