Broken suture - predisposing factor for Nocardia keratitis
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[Nocardia asteroides keratitis].
Problems in management of ulcerative keratitis may arise from delays in diagnosis and from inadequate response to treatment. In the present case, a corneal injury was followed by Nocardia asteroides keratitis. The organism isolated was sensitive in vitro to both sulphonamides and penicillin, but there was no satisfactory clinical improvement with sulphonamides alone. Good response to treatment ...
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Nocardia asteroides has been reported as the cause of keratitis in only 7 cases and of other ocular disease in another 12 cases. We report a case of N. asteroides keratitis that presented 3 weeks after rural trauma and progressed despite trials of appropriate antibiotics. Seven weeks after the origianl injury a successful conjunctival flap was placed over the cornea. The morphology and the sens...
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We read with interest the recent article by Tendolkar et al. (5). We have been seeing and treating cases of Nocardia keratitis for a long time and have published our experiences previously (3, 4). We would like to share some of our observations on this condition for the benefit of JCM’s readers. Nocardia keratitis can occur in immunocompetent patients following minor trauma (3). While lagophtha...
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PURPOSE To report the clinical, confocal scan, and histopathologic features of nocardia keratitis in a patient who developed bilateral infection following photorefractive keratectomy (PRK). CASE REPORT A 23-year-old woman underwent bilateral PRK for low myopia. On postoperative day 3, dense central stromal infiltrates were noticed in both eyes. Empirical antibiotic therapy was initiated which...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eye
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0950-222X,1476-5454
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2000.31