Keratoprosthesis in pemphigoid and Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

Keratoprosthesis was implanted in 17 eyes with ocular pemphigoid and 7 eyes with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and followed for 6 months to 6 years. Visual outcomes and complications were compared. Pemphigoid was found to have a much better prognosis than did Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Keratoprosthesis is now firmly indicated in elderly pemphigoid patients whose vision in both eyes has become reduced to hand movements or less due to a corneal opacity.