Vernal Conjunctivitis in Cuba

Treatment of vernal conjunctivitis.

THE aetiology of vernal conjunctivitis is not yet established apart from a supposed association with "allergy ". Fibrolysin (Luedde, 1920), acetic acid, lactic acid (Tontscheff, 1929), chaulmoogra oil (El-Tobgy, 1933), and other classical "magic eye-drops ", have all proved useless. No specific therapy has been found apart from palliatives till the disease subsides of its own accord. The clinic...

Efficacy of antiprostaglandin therapy in vernal conjunctivitis.

Twenty-seven patients with vernal conjunctivitis who remained symptomatic following treatment with corticosteroid drops and/or Opticrom drops (sodium cromoglycate 2%, benzalkonium chloride 0.01%) were treated with aspirin. Aspirin produced marked improvement in all patients apart from three. The possible mechanism of the efficacy of aspirin in vernal conjunctivitis is discussed.

Outbreak of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis in Cuba.

Effects of vernal and allergic conjunctivitis on severity of keratoconus.

AIM To demonstrate the effects of two different types of allergic conjunctivitis on severity of keratoconus (KC). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 171 KC patients referred between June 2010 and June 2011. The KC patients were divided into 3 groups as KC (group A), KC with vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) (group B) and KC with allergic conjunctivitis (AC) (group C). ...

Second season prednisone treatment in vernal conjunctivitis with special reference to corneal complications.

THs work was started at the beginning of 1956, when a research clinic for vernal conjunctivitis was set up in the Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem. Many intractable cases from throughout the country were sent for consultation and this accounts for the high percentage of severe cases in the series; it also partly explains why so many serious corneal complications were seen in a relatively...