ArticleInternational ophthalmology2017
Results of therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty for bacterial and fungal keratitis.
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- Predictors of Corneal Perforation or Need for Therapeutic Keratoplasty in Severe Fungal Keratitis: A Secondary Analysis of the Mycotic Ulcer Treatment Trial II.JAMA ophthalmology · 2017Trial
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- Current Challenges and Long-Term Outcomes in Corneal Transplantation in Infectious Keratitis-A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Comparison of Recurrent and Naïve Keratitis in a Cohort of 1303 Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Efficacy of the Combined Intrastromal Injection of Voriconazole and Amphotericin B in Recalcitrant Fungal Keratitis.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Incidence of Complications Related to Corneal Graft in a Group of 758 Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Outcomes of Severe Fungal Keratitis Using in vivo Confocal Microscopy and Early Therapeutic Penetrating Keratoplasty.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Article
- Prognostic Factors Affecting Graft Survival in Patients Undergoing Penetrating Keratoplasty for Infectious Keratitis.Turkish journal of ophthalmology · 2020Article
- Long-term outcomes of therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty for microbial keratitis in a tertiary care center in Turkey.International ophthalmology · 2020Article
- The Incidence and Outcomes of Recurrence of Infection after Therapeutic Penetrating Keratoplasty for Medically-Uncontrolled Infectious Keratitis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Repeat Keratoplasty for Failed Therapeutic Keratoplasty for Microbial Keratitis: An Analysis of Characteristics and Risk Factors.Journal of ophthalmology · 2020Article
- Outcome of Sclerokeratoplasty in Devastating Sclerocorneal Infections.Journal of current ophthalmologyArticle
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Abstract
purposeThis study aimed to report the results of therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty (TPKP) performed at early and late stage of keratitis.
methodsThe study involved patients who underwent TPKP surgery due to bacterial, fungal, or mixed (bacterial and fungal) keratitis. The patients were divided into two groups. Group 1 (13 patients) was the patients operated at early stage of corneal abscess formation or in 15 days after the start of keratitis and group 2 (12 patients) was the patients operated at late stage of keratitis or after at least 15 days after the initial appearance of symptoms. Preoperative clinical signs and postoperative results were presented.
resultsAt the end of the follow-up period, 13 (100 %) of grafts in the early TPKP group and 10 (83.3 %) of grafts in the late TPKP group remained clear (p = 0.125). Recurrence of infection at last visit after TPKP was 0 (0 %) of cases in group 1, and was 2 (16.7 %) of cases in group 2 (p = 0.125) Therapeutic success was achieved and the eyes were preserved in 23 patients of both groups. Evisceration was performed for a case and phthisis bulbi was seen in a case in group 2. The groups were statistically different regarding the presence of postoperative complications (p = 0.015).
conclusionTPKP performed in cases that do not respond medical treatment, in the early phase of the disease, before the lesions reach to limbus and without waiting corneal perforation, may yield better clinical results and less postoperative complications.
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