Researchers find early treatment may improve quality of life with keratitis

In a study to assess the vision-related quality of life in patients with infectious keratitis, researchers found that the disease had a significant impact.

Li and colleagues studied 65 patients with infectious keratitis (IK) using the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (VQF-25) to determine their vision-related quality of life (VR-QOL). They also collected clinical and demographic data, which included age, gender, pathogen, best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and duration of the disease.

The results of the study, detailed in Optometry and Vision Science, showed that the questionnaire scores correlated with the duration of the disease, history of operation for IK treatment, gender and BCVA of the worse-seeing eye.

"Infectious keratitis has extensive impacts on patients and VR-QOL," the authors concluded. "Early treatment should be encouraged to obtain better visual prognosis and VR-QOL for patients with IK."

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Optom Vis Sci. 2014; doi: 10.1097/OPX.0000000000000156.