A 73-year-old black woman presented as an emergency with a chief complaint of a red irritated right eye (OD) for 1 week. On examination, her best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 20/60 OD and 20/20 ...
Botox injections may help treat a rare eye condition in which threadlike strands appear in patients' eyes, a new study says. The study involved 33 patients with a condition called filamentary ...
Cases were identified prospectively through the British Ophthalmologic Surveillance Unit (BOSU) from December 2003 to November 2005. Questionnaire data were requested at diagnosis and at 6 months ...
Fungal keratitis is relatively rare in temperate climates with only one previous population-based study, which reported a minimum annual incidence of 0.32 per million population in the United Kingdom.
Opportunistic bacterial infection was considered but deemed unlikely in this case because of a lack of significant corneal infiltrate or mucopurulent discharge. Herpes simplex keratitis is typically ...