...Nir Erdinest; Abraham Solomon; Itay Lavy; Naomi London; Denise Wajnsztajn Introduction: This case presents the development of severe fungal keratitis sourced from a green tea bag used as an ocular warm compress. Case Presentation: A 29-year-old healthy patient developed a deep stromal fungal...

...Jackson Chee Chea Lee; Yachana Vaibhav Shah; Hannah Kathleen Gooding; Graham David Barrett Introduction: This case report describes a rare case of fungal keratitis following femtoLASIK. Despite targetted antifungal therapy, this case necessitated an innovative surgical approach to manage...

..., which can be difficult to discontinue. The 76-year-old patient in this case was receiving topical steroids for bilateral Mooren’s ulcer and developed a feathery corneal infiltration and perforation in the left eye . On suspicion of a fungal keratitis complication, we started topical voriconazole...

...Leopoldo Garduño Vieyra; Raúl Rúa Martínez; Bruno Flores Escobar Fungal keratitis is a complication of refractive surgery that, if not treated in time, can lead to blindness. Given the lack of effective topical treatments for fungal ulcers, surgical treatment is necessary. The least invasive...

...Rina Soda; Hideki Fukuoka; Chie Sotozono Here, we report a rare case of recurrent fungal keratitis (FK) post-amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) for corneal perforation. A 75-year-old female who had undergone systemic 15 mg prednisolone administration for interstitial pneumonia developed FK...

... cross-linking as a therapeutic option in cases of fungal keratitis. [email protected] 16 12 2016 13 01 2017 7 3 2017 © 2017 The Author(s)Published by S. Karger AG, Basel 2017 Open Access License / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer This article is licensed under the Creative...

...Joseph Giovannini; Rick Lee; Sean X. Zhang; Albert S. Jun; Kraig S. Bower Purpose: To describe a case of fungal keratitis involving an atypical organism with confirmatory in vivo confocal microscopy and to review the literature on Rhodotorula keratitis. Methods: Case report and review...

...Esben Nielsen; Steffen Heegaard; Jan Ulrik Prause; Anders Ivarsen; Klaus Leth Mortensen; Jesper Hjortdal Purpose: Introducing a simple image grading system to support the interpretation of in vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) images in filamentous fungal keratitis. Setting: Clinical and confocal...