purpose: to report a case of diffuse lamellar keratitis (dlk) 9.5 months after laser in situ keratomileusis (lasik) associated with a corneal foreign body. patient and findings: a 32-year-old male developed dlk two days after removal of an intraepithelial corneal foreign body 9.5 months after noncomplicated lasik. dlk was eliminated after two weeks of topical steroid application and visual acui...

purpose: to report a case of unilateral aspergillus fumigatus interface keratitis after laser in situ keratomileusis (lasik). case report: a 22-year-old woman developed corneal infiltrates located at the flap- stroma interface in her left eye 48 hours after myopic lasik. the infiltration progressed despite administration of topical fortified antibiotics therefore, the flap was lifted and irriga...

Infectious keratitis is rare following laser vision correction. We present a case of aggressive fungal keratitis caused by Aspergillus flavus, following laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) in the setting of a unique environmental risk factor. We describe the key features of the acute case presentation, which guided empirical medical and surgical treatment, resulting in the most favorable outco...

Copyright: © 2012 Liu A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Transected Lamellar Cut Following Second Pass with a Femtosecond Laser after Incomplete Flap Construction during Laser In Situ Ke...