PMID: 11900320Mar 20, 2002Paper

Keratitis

Bioscience Reports
S Sharma

Abstract

Corneal inflammation or keratitis is a significant cause of ocular morbidity around the world. Fortunately, the majority of the cases are successfully managed with medical therapy, but the failure of therapy does occur, leading to devastating consequences of either losing the vision or the eye. This review attempts to provide current information on most, though not all, aspects of keratitis. Corneal inflammation may be ulcerative or nonulcerative and may arise because of infectious or noninfectious causes. The nonulcerative corneal inflammation may be confined to the epithelial layer or to the stroma of the cornea or may affect both. For clarity, this section has been divided into nonulcerative superficial keratitis and nonulcerative stromal keratitis. While the former usually includes hypersensitivity responses to microbial toxins and unknown agents, the latter can be either infectious or noninfectious. In the pathogenesis of ulcerative keratitis, microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, parasites (Acanthamoeba), or viruses play an important role. Approximately, 12.2% of all corneal transplantations are done for active infectious keratitis. Available world literature pertaining to the incidence of microbial keratitis has been p...Continue Reading

Citations

Mar 31, 2011·International Ophthalmology·Angelino Julio CarielloAna Luisa Hofling-Lima
May 4, 2004·International Dental Journal·M A O Lewis
Jun 15, 2007·Ocular Immunology and Inflammation·Uzeyir ErdemHurkan Kerimoglu
Mar 1, 2012·Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology·Kianti R DarusmanAri Estuningtyas
Mar 30, 2017·JMM Case Reports·Reina LlamosMaría T Illnait-Zaragozí
Dec 14, 2005·Current Treatment Options in Neurology·Susannah Mistr, Pamela S Chavis
Aug 1, 2020·Cornea·James Chodosh, Lawson Ung

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