AIM To study the demographic, clinical, and microbiological profile and the risk factors for graft infection following penetrating keratoplasty. METHODS 50 eyes of 50 consecutive patients with graft infection after an optical penetrating keratoplasty were included as cases; 50 eyes of 50 patients with no graft infection were included as controls. The main variables evaluated in this study inc...

results this cross-sectional study included 92 patients (47 male and 45 female) with mean age of 32.1 ± 13.16 years (ranging from nine to 61 years of age). mean duration of vitiligo was 10.84 ± 10.17 years. the most common distribution of the lesions was on the upper limbs (60.8%) and the least was on the genital region (10.8%). positive family history was found in 26 (28.3%) patients. diabetes...

ABSTRACT Cryptococcosis is an important systemic mycosis with worldwide distribution that affects men and also domestic wild animals. The infection acquired by inhalation of the fungus or basidiospores present in environment may manifest as localized nasal ocular injury, pulmonary illness or, less commonly, meningoencephalomyelitis. Long-term treatment necessary, prognosis reserved. This paper ...

A 58-year-old male patient was admitted with the complaint of burning, watering, stinging, redness and pain in both eyes after he had coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection 3 weeks ago. It determined from anamnesis that severe vision loss right eye for about 35 years been treated some previous treatments. He a best spectacle-corrected visual acuity 'hand motion' LogMAR 0.2 left eye. The ...