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Keratitis and Corneal Melt With Ketorolac Tromethamine After Conductive Keratoplasty
- Source :
- Cornea. 30:477-478
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2011.
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Abstract
- Purpose To report a case of keratitis and corneal melt after conductive keratoplasty (CK) enhancement. Method Case report. Results A 52-year-old woman with emmetropic presbyopia had undergone previous CK for monovision and underwent CK enhancement 4 years later. Postoperatively, she was managed with ketorolac tromethamine 0.4% and developed keratitis and corneal melt. Conclusions This is the first reported case of keratitis and corneal melt associated with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory topical medications in a post-CK patient.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures
Prednisolone
medicine.medical_treatment
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Ketorolac Tromethamine
Corneal Diseases
Keratitis
chemistry.chemical_compound
Corneal melt
Ophthalmology
Electrocoagulation
medicine
Humans
Conductive keratoplasty
Nonsteroidal
business.industry
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
Presbyopia
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
chemistry
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02773740
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cornea
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....12950fba3365cf93457c303419504b80
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ico.0b013e3181ef6ec7