The definition, classification, pathogenesis, test methods, clinical findings, criteria for diagnosis, and therapies of allergic conjunctival disease are summarized based on the Guidelines for Clinical Management of Allergic Conjunctival Disease (Second Edition) revised in 2010. Allergic conjunctival disease is defined as "a conjunctival inflammatory disease associated with a Type I allergy acc...

tal General de México, Mexico City, Mexico. Background: Giant papillary conjunctivitis is associated with soft and rigid contact lens wearing, ocular prostheses, exposed sutures, extruded scleral buckle, filtering blebs, band keratopathy, corneal foreign bodies, limbal dermoids, and cyanoacrylate tissue adhesives. Patients present decreased lens tolerance, increased lens movement and awareness,...

tal General de México, Mexico City, Mexico. Background: Giant papillary conjunctivitis is associated with soft and rigid contact lens wearing, ocular prostheses, exposed sutures, extruded scleral buckle, filtering blebs, band keratopathy, corneal foreign bodies, limbal dermoids, and cyanoacrylate tissue adhesives. Patients present decreased lens tolerance, increased lens movement and awareness,...

Lactoferrin, an iron complexing protein in normal tears, is an important component of the nonspecific host defense system of the external eye. We measured tear lactoferrin levels in patients with contact lens-induced giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC) by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Patients with active GPC (N = 26) had significantly reduced tear levels of lactoferrin (0.876 ...

Highlights:1. Ginger (Zingiber officinale) has antimicrobial activity against UPEC which commonly causes UTI in women.2. The MIC and MBC of ginger this study was 1000 mg/ml. AbstractIntroduction: Conjunctivitis is a self-limiting disease. It can be diagnosed through clinical signs found the eye examination. purpose to define characteristics conjunctivitis patients ophthalmology outpatient clini...

The allergic conjunctivitis (AC) consists of five clinical types, a seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC), perennial allergic conjunctivitis (PAC), vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC), atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC) and giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC), having a common causal background, namely the involvement of allergic component, but different clinical features. 1-5 The five clinical t...

Allergic conjunctivitis (AC),a disorder of the conjunctiva in which an allergic component plays a key role, affects approximately 15-25% of the adult and pediatric population 1-8. Estimates in the literature indicate that the seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC) occurs most frequently, followed by atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC), vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC), perennial allergic conjunc...

BACKGROUND Keratoconus is a chronic, bilateral, usuallly asymmetrical, non-inflammatory, ectatic disorder, being characterized by progressive steepening, thinning and apical scarring of the cornea. Initially, the patient is asymptomatic, but the visual acuity gradually decreases, resulting in significant vision loss due to the development of irregular astigmatism, myopia, corneal thinning and s...

UNLABELLED Wearing contact lenses has been identified as a risk factor for the development of eye conditions such as giant papillary conjunctivitis and keratitis. We hypothesized that wearing contact lenses is associated with changes in the ocular microbiota. We compared the bacterial communities of the conjunctiva and skin under the eye from 58 subjects and analyzed samples from 20 subjects (9...