TY - JOUR
T1 - Prognostic Indicators of Herpetic Keratitis
T2 - Analysis of a Five-Year Observation Period After Corneal Ulceration
AU - Wilhelmus, Kirk R.
AU - Coster, Douglas J.
AU - Donovan, Hugh C.
AU - Falcon, Michael G.
AU - Jones, Barrie R.
PY - 1981/9
Y1 - 1981/9
N2 - Clinical features of 152 patients with herpetic keratitis after a five-year observation period were analyzed. When compared with dendritic ulceration, geographic ulcers that had been symptomatically present for a longer time were more likely to have been treated with a topical steroid and took longer to heal. After treatment of the corneal ulceration, 40% of the patients experienced a recurrent herpetic ulcer, 25% experienced disciform or irregular stromal keratouveitis, 5% experienced ocular hypertension, and 6% had a decrease in visual acuity caused by corneal scarring. Recurrent ulcerative herpetic keratitis occurred more frequently in men and in patients who entered the study with a history of previous herpetic ulceration.
AB - Clinical features of 152 patients with herpetic keratitis after a five-year observation period were analyzed. When compared with dendritic ulceration, geographic ulcers that had been symptomatically present for a longer time were more likely to have been treated with a topical steroid and took longer to heal. After treatment of the corneal ulceration, 40% of the patients experienced a recurrent herpetic ulcer, 25% experienced disciform or irregular stromal keratouveitis, 5% experienced ocular hypertension, and 6% had a decrease in visual acuity caused by corneal scarring. Recurrent ulcerative herpetic keratitis occurred more frequently in men and in patients who entered the study with a history of previous herpetic ulceration.
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U2 - 10.1001/archopht.1981.03930020452009
DO - 10.1001/archopht.1981.03930020452009
M3 - Article
C2 - 6793030
AN - SCOPUS:0019390263
VL - 99
SP - 1578
EP - 1582
JO - Archives of Ophthalmology
JF - Archives of Ophthalmology
SN - 0003-9950
IS - 9
ER -