Fungal infections of the eye are an important cause of significant visual loss and blindness in some regions of the world, especially developing countries. Ocular mycoses remain a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to the ophthalmologist. Corneal infection is the most frequent presentation, but the orbit, eyelids, lacrimal apparatus, conjunctiva, sclera and internal structures of the eye can ...

A 70-year-old male patient had previously underwent trabeculectomy with mitomycin-C in the left eye because of high intraocular pressure. The was needled 5 fluorouracil 2 weeks after operation. Seven days needling procedure, complained pain, redness, stinging, and decreased vision eye. Abiomicroscopic examination performed. corneoscleral infiltration area, including bleb detected at 12 clock po...

The eye is a privileged site that cannot tolerate destructive inflammatory responses. Inflammatory cells entering the anterior chamber of the eye in response to viral infection underwent apoptosis that was dependent on Fas (CD95)-Fas ligand (FasL) and produced no tissue damage. In contrast, viral infection in gid mice, which lack functional FasL, resulted in an inflammation and invasion of ocul...

A survey of patients visiting the eye casualty clinic of the Leicester Royal Infirmary was conducted during a one-year period. Demographic and clinical data were collected for 6576 patients. Data were recorded by both medical and clerical personnel during each patient visit. In addition to reporting the main demographic variables in the study, the most common diagnoses and occupations were anal...

Metastatic or endogenous endophthalmitis (EE) is a serious consequence of systemic sepsis. It is defined as intraocular infection resulting from haematogenous spread of organisms in which the initial focus of infection is at a site distal to the eye. A red/sore eye in a patient with a known septic focus needs urgent attention as EE can be a major cause of visual loss. Early diagnosis and treatm...

improving cleaning and disinfection performance must be taken into account for prevention and control of infection. health care settings are engaged in a battle against healthcare associated infection (hais). the importance of infection prevention and control is increasing due to rapidly developing strains of multi-drug resistant organisms (mdros) that can result in serious illness and even dea...

THE properties of polymyxin in relation to ocular therapeutics have recently been discussed at some length ; the penetration of this antibiotic into the eye of the rabbit after subconjunctival injection was estimated and the results obtained in the treatment of corneal infection experimentally produced with Ps. pyocyanea have been reported (Ainslie and Smith, 1951). It is well known that this t...

dear editor: sir, the present public health problem to be concerned is the e. coli outbreak in europe. this problem started in germany and extended widely. the main presentation of e. coli infection is diarrhea. however, the other non-diarrhea symptoms are also mentioned. focusing on eye manifestations, the conjunctivitis is a topic to be focused. indeed, e. coli is confirmed as an important ca...