Oct 9, 2025 · Keratitis is an ocular emergency and remains one of the major causes of blindness around the world. Main risk factors include corneal trauma, contact lens wear, and breakdown of the corneal …

Apr 12, 2003 · Thygeson's Superficial Punctate KeratitisNatural History TSPK tends to have a chronic recurrent course with asymptomatic periods during which both corneas are clear interrupted by …

Aug 23, 2014 · Clinical Course The patient presented to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) with a peripheral corneal ulceration in the right eye in the setting of arthritis and an unclear …

Herpetic disciform keratitis is a primary endotheliitis resulting in both stromal and epithelial edema in a round (disciform) distribution with keratic precipitates underlying the area of edema.

Common feature of fungal keratitis classically include dry-appearing, elevated infiltrates with feathered margins and satellite lesions.

Dec 31, 2012 · HSV keratitis can present with involvement of the corneal epithelium, stroma, or endothelium, with or without associated inflammation of the anterior chamber (Table 1). [1-4] …

Oct 28, 2016 · Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis was likely first noted by Braley and Alexander in 1953 when they described a series of patients with superficial punctate keratitis and filaments [1].

Acanthamoeba keratitis is a rare parasitic infection of the cornea that primarily occurs in contact lens wearers. The infection may be limited to the epithelium in its early stages, resulting in epithelial …

Feb 27, 2009 · Most often, phlyctenulosis is a corneal sequelae of chronic Staphylococcal blepharitis, a disorder that often presents in the clinic as chronic conjunctivitis or keratitis characterized by …

Jun 24, 2013 · Bacterial keratitis caused by this Gram-negative organism is more fulminant and associated with a worse visual prognosis than that caused by most other common bacterial …