clinical features and confocal microscopic imaging characteristics of 466 cases with infectious keratitis

Clicks: 225
ID: 239632
2014
Free PDF
Article Quality & Performance Metrics
Overall Quality Improving Quality
0.0 /100
Combines engagement data with AI-assessed academic quality
AI Quality Assessment
Not analyzed
Abstract
AIM: To observe the role of confocal microscopy in infectious keratitis management.

METHODS:Totally 466 patients(467 eyes)diagnosed as infectious keratitis from January 2010 to December 2013 were retrospectively studied. the corneas were examined early by in vivo confocal microscopy. The characteristics of their images and clinical features were studied and summarized.

RESULTS:All patients were recorded, the average age was 54.4±13.0 years, in which 264 cases(56.7%)were male, and 202 cases(43.3%)were female. In the 466 patients, 190(40.8%)were fungal keratitis, 148(31.8%)were viral keratitis, 125(26.8%)were bacterial keratitis and 3(0.6%)were acanthamoeba keratitis. There were fungal hyphae in the images of fungal keratitis. Amebic cysts were found in acanthamoeba keratitis.

CONCLUSION:Confocal microscope can help the early diagnose and treatment of infectious keratitis. It is a noninvasive imaging technique that provides high resolution images of ocular structures at a cellular level and infectious keratitis represents one of its most important clinical uses.

Reference Key
xiao2014guojiclinical Use this key to autocite in the manuscript while using SciMatic Manuscript Manager or Thesis Manager
Authors ;Hui Xiao;De-Yan Zhang;Zhong-Yi Fan
Journal journal of fungi
Year 2014
DOI
10.3980/j.issn.1672-5123.2014.10.23
URL
http://www.ies.net.cn/cn_publish/2014/10/201410023.pdf
Keywords
bacteria viruses vision fungi confocal microscopy keratitis deep lamellar keratoplasty

Citations

No citations found. To add a citation, contact the admin at info@scimatic.org

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this article.