Treatment of fungal corneal ulcer at the Central Hospital of Ophthalmology in 2004
- Author:
Doan Thuy Hoa
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
corneal ulcer, fungal corneal
- MeSH:
Corneal Ulcer;
Therapeutics
- From:Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
2003;0(11):34-37
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The study was carried out in 372 patients with fungal corneal ulcer at the Central Hospital of Ophthalmology in 2004. Results showed that: this disease is more common in women than men, at working age from 20 to 60. 100% of inpatient had fungal using fresh sample microscopy test. The majority of patients came to hospital after having symptoms from 1 to 2 weeks. The patients were treated by two method: internal treatments (55.3%) and surgery (44.7%). Internal treatments included antifungal, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and anti-necrosis antibiotics, cornea nutrition agents, lugol solution 2%, potassium iodide electrophoresis 2%, midriasis collyre…; Surgical procedures included trabeculectomy 5%, corneal sharpening 50%, corneal graft 18%, tarsorrhaphy 01%, intraocular remove 12%. Patient's vision did not increase significantly, fingers count was under 5m. In general, treatment did not obtaine significant improvements because of late admission and severe disease, treatment duration was about 99 days. This disease may persistent, recurrent. Poor vision causes many severe complications, especially perforation occurred in 21/147 inpatients
