title: [Therapy of acute keratoconus].
abstract: The author made a series of observations in 17 cases of acute keratoconus. He performed perforating keratoplasties on 18 eyes of 16 patients promptly in the acute phases. The results were the same as after keratoplasty in cases of simple keratoconus. He informs of his observations regarding the probable causes of bringing about the acute phase.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007640:Keratoconus / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
vernacular_title: Uber die Therapie des akuten Keratokonus.