purpose : infectious corneal ulceration is a serious potential complication of prk. although gram positive organisms are the most common pathogens, in this study we present the first case of gram negative bacilli keratitis, alcaligenes, after prk. case report : a 22-year-old man was referred to our institution due to infection following corneal refractive surgery. three days after surgery, the ...

Background: To explore the prevalence of lacrimal duct obstruction in patients with infectious keratitis, and the necessity of lacrimal duct dredge in the treatment of human infectious keratitis. Methodology/Principle Findings: The design is prospective, non-control case series. Thirty-one eyes from twenty-eight continuous patients with infectious keratitis were included in this study. The pres...

Keratitis is an inflammation of the cornea (the clear, front part of the eye) and is often caused by bacteria, viruses, amoeba, fungi. There are two types of keratitis infectious ulcerative keratitis (IUK), caused by infectious pathogens and noninfectious ulcerative keratitis (NIUK), which has a clinical presentation similar to that of IUK but no known infectious cause and is a diverse disease ...

Infectious keratitis after penetrating keratoplasty (PK) is a devastating condition that may result in graft failure and poor visual outcome. In this study, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients who underwent PK between 2009 and 2014, and recorded those who developed infectious keratitis. We compared the predisposing factors and organisms isolated to those identified in ou...

Purpose. To review the newer treatments for bacterial keratitis. Data Sources. PubMed literature search up to April 2012. Study Selection. Key words used for literature search: "infectious keratitis", "microbial keratitis", "infective keratitis", "new treatments for infectious keratitis", "fourth generation fluoroquinolones", "moxifloxacin", "gatifloxacin", "collagen cross-linking", and "photod...

OBJECTIVE To understand the prevalence and demographic characteristics of infectious keratitis and infectious corneal blindness. METHODS A multi-center, population-based cross-sectional study was conducted from January 1 to August 31, 2010. A total of 191,242 individuals of all age groups from 10 geographically representative provinces were sampled using stratified, multi-stage, random and sy...

BACKGROUND The baseline data pertaining to the national epidemiological survey of infectious keratitis remain scarce in China, and currently there is no corneal blindness control strategy developed by the nation. METHODS Geographically defined cluster sampling was used to randomly select a cross-section of residents from representative urban and rural populations in Hubei Province. Participan...