EXPERIMENTAL CORNEAL ULCERS

Experimental Corneal Ulcers Experimental Corneal Ulcers

DURING recent years we have been working in Edinburgh on experimental ulcers and infections of the cornea of various types. This work started at the beginning of 1940 with the investigation of experimental mustard gas lesions on the eye and their treatment. In the course of this work it was found that secondary infection played an important part in determining the severity of the lesions produc...

Corticosteroids for bacterial corneal ulcers.

AIMS The aim of the study was to conduct a preliminary clinical trial to assess whether adjunctive topical corticosteroids improve outcomes in bacterial keratitis and, if no difference was found, to determine the feasibility and sample size necessary for conducting a larger trial to answer this question. METHODS In this single centre, double-masked clinical trial, 42 patients with culture-con...

Therapeutic keratoplasty in Pseudomonas pyocyaneus corneal ulcers.

Sloughing virulent corneal ulcers are still very common in India. Even with the best medication they often fail to respond and in such cases the eyes are invariably lost. This is especially true in the case of ulcers caused by Pseudomonas pyocyaneus, when the clinical course is so fulminating that only a bold and timely decision can save the eye. Keratoplasty has been found to be a potent eye-s...

Therapeutic keratoplasty in fungal corneal ulcers.

Prevalence of Fungal Keratitis (FK) in Patients with Corneal Ulcers in Tehran, Iran