OBJECTIVE To identify the different microbial pathogens in infective corneal ulcers. STUDY DESIGN Observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Ophthalmology Unit I, Eye Hospital, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Hyderabad, Sindh, from April 2006 to September 2008. METHODOLOGY Patients above 15 years of age with suspected infective corneal ulcers were st...

MULES (1894) wrote that where " the action of micro-organisms on an abraded surface may cause or is causing destructive changes " the indications would be to remove the irritating elements and allow the natural process of repair to heal the breach of surface ". He sought to achieve this by placing a gelatine wafer impregnated with iodoform on the corneal surface and keeping the eye bandaged. He...

Inflammatory complications of the organ vision in time COVID-19 can be manifested as conjunctivitis, scleritis, episcleritis, keratitis, uveitis and optic neuritis. It is essential to collect anamnesis, examine blood for presence COVID 19 treat these patients with help infectious disease specialists. Correct diagnosis inflammatory ocular makes it possible prevent complications, such as: ulcers ...

Bacterial infections ofthe anterior segment ofthe eye are not a common feature of AIDS but once established these infections may be particularly severe and more likely to cause ulcer and perforation.' Pseudonwmas aeruginosa has been cultured in keratitis, corneal ulcers, and scleritis in HIV infected patients2; nevertheless, nobody has previously reported Pseudomonas conjunctival ulcers in HIV ...

Purpose. To compare the long-term outcomes of infectious versus sterile perforated corneal ulcers after therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty in the United States. Methods. The charts of 45 consecutive eyes that underwent primary therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty for a perforated corneal ulcer at a single center were retrospectively reviewed. The perforated ulcers were classified as infectiou...

CORNEAL ulcers are common in all ophthalmic hospitals in India, especially in the summer. Their treatment was very unsatisfactory before the advent of antibiotics but even antibiotics were found to have their limitations in hypopyon ulcers, especially those due to B. pyocyaneus which always progressed to perforation of the cornea in spite of vigorous treatment. It was therefore decided to place...

Peripheral corneal ulcers can still pose difficult clinical problems despite therapeutic advances such as specific antimicrobial agents, collagenase inhibitors, heparin, ocular lubricants, biological adhesives, and soft contact lenses. This paper reports the healing of several types of progressive marginal ulcers after the excision and recession of adjacent limbal conjunctiva (limbal conjunctiv...

AIMS The aim of the study was to conduct a preliminary clinical trial to assess whether adjunctive topical corticosteroids improve outcomes in bacterial keratitis and, if no difference was found, to determine the feasibility and sample size necessary for conducting a larger trial to answer this question. METHODS In this single centre, double-masked clinical trial, 42 patients with culture-con...

purpose: to determine the indications for and surgical techniques of corneal transplantation at labbafinejad medical center (lmc) from 2004 to 2007. methods: in this descriptive study, records of 756 patients who had undergone corneal transplantation from october 2004 to october 2007 were reviewed. results: overall, 504 male (64.9%) and 272 female (35.1%) subjects with mean age of 41.29±21.25 (...