A cervical cancer drug may elevate the risk of developing ocular surface disease, such as conjunctival scarring and infectious keratitis.

Wearing contact lenses the wrong way can harm your eyes. This may lead to infections like microbial keratitis, corneal ulcers ...

When managing an irritated cornea, choosing among fortified antibiotics, oral antivirals, anti-inflammatories or combination ...

OSN, a roundtable discusses the management of epithelial ingrowth after LASIK, neurotrophic keratitis and Demodex blepharitis with marginal keratitis.A few thoughts after decades of treating these ...

Methods: This was a prospective case series of seven eyes with fungal keratitis with anterior chamber involvement or a corneal ulcer refractory to conventional topical treatment. In addition to ...

Grade IV: very severe—chronic persistent symptoms and/or corneal pathognomonic signs ... discharge, punctate keratitis however there are pathognomonic signs of healed shield ulcer, limbal stem cell ...

When the eye is involved, it can lead to: ︎Improper closure of eyes leading to 'exposure keratitis' (damage to the cornea caused by dryness due to incomplete or insufficient eyelid closure, leading to ...

Alex Sigmund, DVM, DACVO, shares practical tips general practitioners can use for diagnosing and managing patients with corneal ulcers During an interview with dvm360 ahead of his lectures at the ...

Corneal scrapings were performed twice for Gram and Giemsa staining and cultures; however, laboratory results were negative. The ulcer was unresponsive to extensive medical treatment with ...

Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States The ...

1 Moorfields Eye Hospital, 162 City Rd, London EC1V 2PD, UK 1 Moorfields Eye Hospital, 162 City Rd, London EC1V 2PD, UK Corneal laser ... The incidence of microbial keratitis after refractive ...