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

Infectious keratitis is a significant cause of vision loss worldwide, often requiring effective treatment to prevent complications such as corneal scarring or perforation. Recent research has ...

Eye care specialists could see artificial intelligence help in diagnosing infectious keratitis (IK), a leading cause of ...

Over the last decade, the outcome of contact lens-associated bacterial keratitis has improved owing to fluoroquinolones, leading to a better control of infection, earlier institution of anti ...

More information: Zun Zheng Ong et al, Diagnostic performance of deep learning for infectious keratitis: a systematic review ...

Lead researcher Lottie Brown from the University of Manchester today publishes the first estimation of global fungal keratitis figures in Lancet Infectious Diseases. Infection of the transparent ...

The pooled prevalence of conjunctivitis in mpox was 9%, followed by impaired vision (4%), keratitis (3%), and eye lesions (3% ...

Herpes stromal keratitis (HSK) is a potentially blinding disease caused by herpes simplex virus corneal infection. Most cases of HSK are due to reactivation of the virus from latency leading to ...

Neurotrophic keratitis is historically a rare disease ... patients with topical antibiotics to minimize the risk of an infection,” he said. Scleral contact lenses, although not widely utilized ...