this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of administering oral acyclovir in conjunction with topical acyclovir and steroids in the treatment of necrotizing herpetic keratouveitis. all patients with necrotizing herpetic keratouveits who have been consulted during 1996-1997 at the farbi eye hospital were studied . the patients were randomly assigned to two groups. in the first group, topi...

Herpetic keratitis which is resulted from herpes simplex virus type I, is considered the most common cause of corneal blindness that needs being diagnosed and treated in order to prevent irreversible eye effects. The best method to diagnose it is molecular method which has high sensitivity and exclusivity. The current study was done on 25 eye samples collected from patients referred to the Feyz...

Herpetic keratitis which is resulted from herpes simplex virus type I, is considered the most common cause of corneal blindness that needs being diagnosed and treated in order to prevent irreversible eye effects. The best method to diagnose it is molecular method which has high sensitivity and exclusivity. The current study was done on 25 eye samples collected from patients referred to the Feyz...

purpose: to evaluate the effectiveness of corneal collagen cross-linking with uv-a and riboflavin (cxl) for treatment of refractory herpes simplex virus necrotizing keratitis. case reports: two patients with a diagnosis of hsv necrotizing stromal keratitis referred to khalili hospital eye emergency room and who were resistant to conventional treatment underwent cxl. response to treatment was ev...

purpose : the evaluation of the presence of herpes simplex virus (hsv) in corneal scars by real-time polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and comparison of the results with histopathologic findings and clinical diagnoses methods : eighty-seven corneal scar samples obtained after penetrating keratoplasty (pk), were selected after reviewing the records from 2006 to 2010. nucleic acid was extracted fro...

background herpes simplex virus infections are very common worldwide. the virus can cause infection in various body parts, especially eyes and the nervous system. therefore, an early diagnosis and highly sensitive method is very helpful. objectives the present study sought to investigate the efficiency of real-time taqman probe pcr in the diagnosis of hsv infection in suspected patients. patien...

The presence, frequency, and relationship of ocular and oral shedding of herpes simplex virus to previous herpes keratitis was investigated. This was to determine if a history of herpes keratitis predisposes to shedding of the herpes simplex virus into the tear film and/or mouth. Swabs were collected from the eyes and mouth of two groups of patients thrice weekly over a two- to four-month perio...

herpetic keratitis which is resulted from herpes simplex virus type i, is considered the most common cause of corneal blindness that needs being diagnosed and treated in order to prevent irreversible eye effects. the best method to diagnose it is molecular method which has high sensitivity and exclusivity. the current study was done on 25 eye samples collected from patients referred to the feyz...