keratomycosis

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Noun1.keratomycosis - fungal infection of the cornea
fungal infection, mycosis - an inflammatory condition caused by a fungus
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In this study, a descriptive Study review of medical records of all microbiologically diagnosed cases of Bacterial & Fungal keratitis seen over a period of 3 years at a tertiary care centre were studied with the following objectives
Corneal nerve alterations in acute Acanthamoeba and fungal keratitis: an in vivo confocal microscopy study.
Many studies conducted on fungal keratitis in different countries like India used KOH wet mount for preliminary identification of fungal hyphae in corneal scrapings.15-17
A corneal scraping was then performed, and the clinical manifestation was highly suspected to be a fungal keratitis. Therapy was modified with 2 mg/ml topical voriconazole 1% 4/die and moxifloxacin 0.3% 6/die.
Aspergillus has been reported to cause fungal endophthalmitis after ophthalmologic surgery, while Trichophyton has been reported to cause fungal keratitis after cataract surgery [6].
The major indications for PK among these patients were fungal keratitis (8 eyes, 34.8%), herpes simplex virus keratitis (5 eyes, 21.7%), keratoconus (3 eyes, 13.0%), and bullous keratopathy (3 eyes, 13.0%).
Patients with clinical features of fungal keratitis, with positive corneal scrapings for fungi, and those who followed up for a minimum period of three months after recovery from infection were included.Other causes of infectious keratitis were excluded.
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