Corneal Ulcer
Ace the Case: A 52-Year-Old Man With Progressive Worsening of Signs and Symptoms of Dry Eye Disease
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Ace the Case: A 73-Year-Old Woman Having Difficulty Driving at Night
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Secondary PDEK can follow therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty for corneal ulcer
A corneal ulcer refractory to medical management often proceeds to therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty in the late stages.
Woman experiences foreign body sensation, irritation in right eye
A 69-year-old woman presented to an outside provider with foreign body sensation and irritation in the right eye for 3 days.
Woman experiences previous ‘gush’ of fluid from right eye, now acute left eye pain
A 28-year-old Latino woman presented to the University of New Mexico emergency department with the complaint of acute onset left eye pain, photophobia and visual decline.
VIDEO: Fortisite allows for faster, cost saving treatment for corneal ulcers
WAILEA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye/Retina 2024, John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, discusses the benefits of treating corneal ulcers with Fortisite, a combination of tobramycin 1.5% and vancomycin 5%.
BLOG: The drops that should be in every eye clinic and ER
Corneal ulcers are one of the fastest ways our patients with healthy eyes can quickly lose vision, but they’re also easy for any clinician with a slit lamp to identify.
Neurotrophic Keratitis: Early Detection and Intervention for Enhanced Outcomes
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Double trouble: Patient has fungal corneal ulcer, ocular surface squamous neoplasia
Ocular surface squamous neoplasia is used to describe neoplastic epithelial abnormalities of the conjunctiva and cornea, ranging from squamous dysplasia to invasive squamous cell carcinoma.
Model demonstrates ability to differentiate active corneal ulcers, healed scars
A convolutional neural network was able to identify corneal ulcers and scars with high accuracy even among a patient population outside of its training data, according to a study.