Diagnosis and Management of Acanthamoeba Keratitis

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Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is a vision-threatening corneal infection that most frequently affects contact lens wearers. Severe pain out of proportion to the findings, radial keratoneuritis, and ring infiltration are relatively specific clinical manifestations AK. The diagnosis AK challenging it often misdiagnosed because atypical presentations. definitive requires presence cysts or trophozoites in lesions, high index suspicion important for early diagnosis. In this review, we describe manifestations, including management

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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of optometry and contact lens

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2384-0919']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52725/aocl.2022.21.3.104