99% success for riboflavin eye procedure

A US eye specialist says he has developed a nutrient-based surgical  procedure that offers 99% success in the treatment of keratoconus, an  often devastating condition that can lead to blindness.

Brian Boxer Wachler, a world-renowned surgeon and the director of an  eye-care center in Beverly Hills, California, says that C3-R (corneal  collagen cross-linking with riboflavin) is the first vision correction  procedure to use vitamin treatments for the disorder.

A single treatment of C3-R completely halts the disease in its tracks in  99% of cases, according to studies done by Dr Boxer Wachler and other  doctors in Europe. The recovery time is only one day, and patients can  normally resume 100% of their usual activities by the next day. After  five years of study, there have been no side effects reported from this  non-invasive procedure, he noted.