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Neurotrophic keratitis
1 October 2014
| Sofia Rokerya
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
The authors present an overview of the aetiology, diagnosis, current and future management options of neurotrophic keratitis. This is a degenerative corneal disease that occurs following the compromise of trigeminal innervation, leading to hypoesthesia and / or anaesthesia. The aetiology...
Acanthaemoeba keratitis
1 December 2017
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
In the second of this series I describe a case of Acanthaemoeba keratitis (AK) that was misdiagnosed for a prolonged period which resulted in a devastating outcome. This is one of half a dozen similar medico-legal cases I have dealt...
Acanthamoeba keratitis
1 October 2021
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
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Acanthamoeba keratitis, prognosis, transplantation, treatment
This is a retrospective case series on medical records and corneal photographs of 40 eyes of 35 patients with acanthamoeba keratitis (AK, culture positive or with histopathological diagnosis). The mean age of onset was 30 ±15 years (younger in females)....
Microbial keratitis in corneal grafts
1 October 2018
| Sofia Rokerya
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
The authors report a retrospective case series of 59 episodes of microbial keratitis identified in 41 eyes of 41 patients (39 penetrating keratoplasty (PKPs) and two deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALKs)), from a total of 759 consecutive corneal grafts identified...
Silent keratitis in failed graft
1 August 2017
| Magdalena Popiela
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
This study examined rates of asymptomatic keratitis in failed full thickness corneal grafts, which were not picked up clinically preoperatively. During a five year period 53 penetrating keratoplasties (PK) were performed for long-standing graft decompensation with stromal opacity and /...
Diffuse lamellar keratitis
5 August 2020
| Inderpaul S Sian
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Cataract and Refractive
This study group reviewed cytokine- and chemokine-mediated mechanisms of diffuse lamellar keratitis (DLK) after lamellar corneal surgical procedures. DLK can occur early or late (months to decades) after all lamellar corneal surgeries, including laser in situ keratomileusis, small incision lenticule...
PACK-crosslinking for infectious keratitis
1 October 2015
| David Tabibian, Farhad Hafezi
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
Corneal cross-linking with riboflavin and UV-A light (CXL) is a technology that has been initially developed to treat corneal ectatic disorders [1]. Its effect in stabilising diseases such as keratoconus was reported in numerous trials with excellent long-term outcomes and...
Light tolerance in infectious keratitis
7 April 2021
| Kareem Waleed Alsaffarini
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
The authors presented the findings of a study that aimed to identify the maximum irradiance (power received by a surface per unit area) that can be tolerated by photophobic patients with infectious keratitis (IK). They recruited 30 patients (14 women...
Review of pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba keratitis
4 February 2021
| Siyin Liu
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
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Acanthamoeba, Contact lens, Cornea, Immunology, Keratitis, Microbiome, Pathology
In this review, the author summarised the current microbiomic and immunological evidence related to the pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK). AK has been described for almost 50 years, but the exact biology of the disease remains perplexing. Acanthamoeba spp. are...
Moxifloxacin 0.5% for bacterial keratitis
1 December 2013
| Brian Ang
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
The authors report on the results of a randomised controlled trial comparing commercially available non-preserved moxifloxacin 0.5% vs. a combination of fortified cefazolin 5% and tobramycin 1.3% in the treatment of moderate bacterial keratitis without perforation. Corneal scrapings were collected...
Incidence and clinical characteristics of paediatric keratitis
2 February 2024
| Jonathan Chan
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Contact lens, Epidemiology, Inflammation, Vision
This is a retrospective, population-based study of a 10-year period from Mayo Clinic, USA between January 2000 and December 2009 of patients <19 years diagnosed with keratitis. Two-hundred and eight-five children were identified. An incidence of 78 per 100,000 and...
Fusarium keratitis in a patient with alcohol dependence
1 April 2014
| Inderpaul S Sian, Jonathan Park, Keith Bates
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Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Imaging, Ophthalmology
Treatment of fungal keratitis secondary to the Fusarium species remains a challenge. Although relatively more common in warmer climates, this corneal infection is rare in the UK. Most cases have been reported in farmers and are often preceded by trauma....