Fuchs Dystrophy

Your healthcare provider will begin by taking a medical history, asking you questions about your symptoms and doing a thorough eye exam.

Your provider may use the following tests to diagnose Fuchs’ dystrophy:

• Microscopy: These types of exams use microscopes to make diagnoses. The slit lamp equipment used in your eye exam combines a microscope with a light that goes from a small slit to a complete circle. The confocal/specular microscope uses light projection to allow your provider enough of a view to even count your endothelial cells.
• Pachymetry: This painless test measures how thick your cornea is.
• Optical coherence tomography: This is a noninvasive imaging method that uses reflected light to create pictures of the back of your eye.