2024年11月22日 · Keratitis is an ocular emergency and remains one of the major causes of blindness around the world. Main risk factors include corneal trauma, contact lens wear, and breakdown of the corneal epithelium. The diagnosis depends on a careful history, slit-lamp examination, and corneal scraping cultures.

2003年4月12日 · The keratitis usually improves with low-dose topical corticosteroids (0.12% prednisone or equivalent 2 to 3 times per day for a few days up to 2 weeks as recommended by Arffa, p. 323. Leibowitz et al., recommend that acute episodes be treated aggressively with topical steroids and then tapered and discontinued over a 3 to 4 week interval.)

2014年8月23日 · Peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) is an inflammatory corneal condition estimated to affect 3 persons per million per year (1). It predominantly affects older individuals and does not have a significant gender predilection (2,3,4).

2012年12月31日 · HSV stromal keratitis is associated with the highest and most severe morbidity of any ocular herpetic disease.[1-4] Although this condition frequently follows previous HSV epithelial keratitis, it can be the initial presentation of ocular herpetic disease. The vast majority of cases are an immune stromal keratitis (ISK), which involves the ...

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a Herpes virus responsible for chicken pox and shingles. With corneal epithelial involvement, the virus can cause punctate or dendritic epithelial keratitis. The pseudodendrites caused by VZV can be differentiated clinically from "true" dendrites caused by Herpes simplex virus (HSV).

2016年10月28日 · Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis was likely first noted by Braley and Alexander in 1953 when they described a series of patients with superficial punctate keratitis and filaments [1]. In 1961 Thygeson further described the condition in a series of 12 patients with filamentary keratitis limited to the superior cornea with inflammation of the ...

2015年10月30日 · The condition is considered to be idiopathic, although various reports have linked it to preceding viral keratitis (2-4). There is an HLA DR3 association (5). Thygeson's SPK typically presents in patients aged 20-30, with an equal prevalence between men and women (2).

Fungal keratitis Fungal keratitis Category(ies): Cornea Contributor: Jesse Vislisel, MD, John Chen, MD, PhD Photographer: Brice Critser, CRA; Carol Chan, CRA; Antoinette Venckus, CRA; Stefani Karakas, CRA . Common feature of fungal keratitis classically include dry-appearing, elevated infiltrates with feathered margins and satellite lesions.

Thygeson's superficial punctate keratitis Thygeson's superficial punctate keratitis Category(ies): Cornea Contributor: Lucas Lenci, MD; Blake Perry, MD Photographer: Brice Critser, CRA. In 1950, Dr. Phillips Thygeson reported a case series of 26 patients.

2006年12月14日 · Acanthamoeba keratitis can be severe and vision-threatening. The infection was first recognized in contact-lens wearers in the mid 1970's (Jones DB, 1975). There was a sharp increase in the recognition (and perhaps incidence) of this disease in the late 1980's.