Introduction: Corneal trauma can be defined as any impact on the cornea following direct or indirect by a traumatic agent. Due to its anatomical position, is superficial membrane most exposed ocular trauma. It frequent pathology in ophthalmology, especially young active subjects. an important cause of poor vision loss eyeball with significant socio-economic impact. Material and Method: We condu...

A 32-year-old man suffering from keratoconus was treated with radial keratotomy. Twenty weeks later, he presented visual deterioration, edema and corneal perforation. A penetrating keratoplasty was required. The postoperative course was regular, but after 9 months, the patient presented kerato-uveitis. Subsequent phlogistic relapses occurred approximately every 6 months during the following 5 y...

BACKGROUND Dolosigranulum pigrum is a commensal inhabitant of the upper respiratory tract suspected to be responsible for ocular infections but no well-described case of D. pigrum corneal infection has been reported. Herein culture and PCR-sequencing-based investigations of corneal scraping specimens confirmed D. pigrum keratitis in three patients. CASE PRESENTATION Three elderly patients pre...

PURPOSE To report a case of severe conjunctival-corneal melt in association with carotid artery stenosis. METHODS Observational case report. RESULTS A 76-year-old man with a history of bilateral severe carotid artery occlusion and nonarteritic ischemic optic neuropathy developed a spontaneous bulbar conjunctival defect. Despite intensive lubrication, and attempts at surgical closure includi...

PURPOSE To report and discuss cases of lamellar keratoplasty using corneas obtained during previous penetrating keratoplasty in keratoconus eyes. METHODS Corneal buttons were obtained from 7 keratoconus patients and stored in a preserving solution for 7-60 days (average, 32.4 days) before use. The recipient eyes comprised recurrent pterygium 3 eyes, primary pterygium 1 eye, pseudopterygium 1 ...

A healthy 27-year-old woman with a corneal ulcer underwent fibrin gluing with a bandage contact lens twice, due to an impending perforation. The ulcer lesion slowly progressed, unresponsive to topical antibiotics and amphotericin B. We removed the gluing patch and performed a corneal or scraping or biopsy with multiple amniotic membrane grafts to seal the thinned or perforated cornea. Three day...

Case study 1 Betty, 78 years of age, presented to the emergency department with an acutely painful discharging left eye on the background of a complex ocular history. While living overseas she had developed left eye herpes keratitis for which she sought treatment from an ophthalmologist. She had initially been prescribed oral valacyclovir tablets and then ongoing topical corticosteroid eye drop...

OBJECTIVES To describe a microsurgical approach to a selective pedunculated conjunctival flap for the treatment of chronic corneal ulceration with or without corneal perforation, and to present the results of 50 consecutive cases. DESIGN Retrospective, noncomparative case series and case reports. Patients All patients who had microsurgical conjunctival flap procedures for the treatment of chr...

PURPOSE We examined histopathologically the anterior ocular segment including the cornea and lens of an eye which had been enucleated in a patient with Peters' anomaly because of untreatable corneal perforation. Special effort was made to differentiate the corneal stromal and endothelial cells, and the stromal extracellular matrix. METHODS Light microscopy, with hematoxylin and eosin staining...