Keratitis

A 58-year-old man who lives out of state had a history of waking up with irritation in his right eye 2 weeks after sleeping in his contact lenses.

At OSN New York, a panel of experts led by Marguerite B. McDonald, MD, FACS, broke down and problem-solved challenging corneal cases.

In this issue of Healio | OSN, a roundtable discusses the management of epithelial ingrowth after LASIK, neurotrophic keratitis and Demodex blepharitis with marginal keratitis.

When managing an irritated cornea, choosing among fortified antibiotics, oral antivirals, anti-inflammatories or combination therapy as the best course of action can be challenging.

Neurotrophic keratitis is well explored in the cover story of this issue of Healio | OSN.

The staging system used for neurotrophic keratopathy, or NK, is the Mackie classification from 1995 with recent modifications by Dua, which clusters a number of distinct and sometimes nonsequential phases of NK into three broad categories.

Neurotrophic keratitis is historically a rare disease, but now that more understanding has been gained of the underlying etiology and manifestations, its prevalence is starting to increase, and more cases are seen in clinics.

According to several sources, infectious keratitis is the fifth leading cause of blindness in the world.

Microbial keratitis is a diverse and changing landscape.