{"id":27856,"date":"2024-01-09T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/keratoconus-hereditary-factors\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T21:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:00:01","slug":"keratoconus-hereditary-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/keratoconus-hereditary-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Keratoconus &#8211; hereditary factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The causes of <a href=\"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/keratoconus\/\">keratoconus<\/a> have not been conclusively researched.<br \/>\nHowever, it is frequently observed that keratoconus occurs in families. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early detection in family members  <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If keratoconus is diagnosed in the family, it is important that family members are also examined at an early stage &#8211; this enables a timely diagnosis and, if necessary, intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Symptom-free keratoconus in the early stages<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keratoconus often causes no symptoms at first &#8211; this can remain the case for years.<br \/>\nThe quality of vision can also be completely unimpaired.<br \/>\nThis makes preventive examinations all the more important.<br \/>\nThe progression of the disease must be monitored.<br \/>\nIn the initial phase of the progressive disease, <a href=\"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/stitching-cxl\/\">treatment with CXL<\/a> is advisable.<br \/>\nThis allows vision to be preserved before the keratoconus causes more severe visual problems.     <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In children in particular, there should be no hesitation in initiating treatment as soon as possible.<br \/>\nThe rate of progression is particularly high in children and adolescents. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The causes of keratoconus have not been conclusively researched. However, it is frequently observed that keratoconus occurs in families. Early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-27856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faqs-en","tag-keratoconus-glossary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27856","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=27856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}