{"id":27761,"date":"2024-01-11T15:28:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/repetition-of-crosslinking\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:39:37","slug":"repetition-of-crosslinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/repetition-of-crosslinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Repetition of crosslinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In principle, crosslinking can be repeated.<br \/>\nHowever, some factors and the reasons must be considered. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is only a low rate of three to seven percent where the CXL treatment does not work.<br \/>\nWith both methods &#8211; EPI-ON and EPI-OFF &#8211; it is possible to repeat the treatment in this case. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the treatment was unsuccessful due to hormonal fluctuations, it must be decided on an individual basis how appropriate a follow-up treatment is.<br \/>\nHormone fluctuations are caused, for example<br \/>\nfor example, due to pregnancy, breastfeeding or endocrine diseases.  <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow-up treatment after several years<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a few patients, the effect of crosslinking wears off after a few years &#8211; the cornea may bulge again and the ectasia may progress.<br \/>\nIn this case, a new treatment with CXL is also possible. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Better effect after second treatment<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A double treatment with CXL should even improve the effect.<br \/>\nThis means that the cornea becomes even firmer after the second treatment and the likelihood of deterioration is further reduced. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is keratoconus?<br \/>\nDr. Victor Derhartunian explains what keratoconus is and what treatment options are available.<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-27761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs-en","tag-crosslinking-glossary-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}