Keratitis - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment - BMJ Best Practice
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.
Thygeson's Superficial Punctate Keratitis - University of Iowa
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.)
Keratitis - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment | BMJ Best Practice US
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.
Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis (PUK) - University of Iowa
2014年8月25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).
Herpes Simplex Keratitis: - University of Iowa
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 ...
Atlas Entry - Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) epithelial keratitis
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).
Atlas Entry - Peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) - University of Iowa
Peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) is an autoimmune-mediated corneal infiltration associated with systemic autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. It is most commonly associated with rheumatoid arthritis, but can also be associated with Wegener's granulomatosis, polyarteritis nodosa, lupus, scleroderma, and other inflammatory diseases.
Vision Loss After Contact Lens-Related Pseudomonas Keratitis
2013年6月24日 · Bacterial keratitis caused by this Gram-negative organism is more fulminant and associated with a worse visual prognosis than that caused by most other common bacterial pathogens (1-3,7-9). Subjectively, the patient reports the sudden onset and rapid progression of ocular pain, redness, tearing, photophobia, and blurred vision.
Atlas Entry - Fungal keratitis - University of Iowa
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.
Atlas Entry - Acanthamoeba keratitis - University of Iowa
Acanthamoeba keratitis is a rare parasitic infection of the cornea that primarily occurs in contact lens wearers. The infection may be limited to the epithelium in its early stages, resulting in epithelial dendrites and punctate epitheliopathy.