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Acute idiopathic corneal endotheliitis
- Source :
- Ophthalmology. 91(10)
- Publication Year :
- 1984
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Abstract
- Seven patients presenting with acute corneal stromal edema without prior surgery, trauma, ocular disease or known exposure to noxious agents are reported. One patient had a severe iridocyclitis; two others subsequently developed herpetic keratouveitis. Four cases, however, were unassociated with other known ocular disease. All four of these patients exhibited keratic precipitates and displayed minimal or no flare and cells in the anterior chamber, although the latter was largely obscured by the corneal edema. In each of these four instances, the inflammation and corneal edema resolved following topical corticosteroid therapy. In two of the four cases, both children, antibody to Herpes simplex virus could not be identified. We suggest that, in patients without known prior corneal disease or trauma, acute diffuse corneal stroma edema may stem from severe iridocyclitis or a primary endotheliitis due either to herpetic infection, the recently described presumed autoimmune corneal endotheliopathy, or a condition which we herein designate acute idiopathic corneal endotheliitis.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology
genetic structures
medicine.drug_class
Topical Corticosteroid Therapy
Anterior Chamber
medicine.medical_treatment
Eye disease
Cataract
Epithelium
Corneal Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Cornea
Uveitis
Edema
Ophthalmology
medicine
Humans
Endothelium
Child
Corneal Ulcer
Endotheliitis
Corneal stromal edema
Aged
Keratitis
Chemotherapy
business.industry
Keratitis, Dendritic
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Uveitis, Anterior
eye diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
Child, Preschool
Acute Disease
Corticosteroid
Female
sense organs
medicine.symptom
business
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01616420
- Volume :
- 91
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ophthalmology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d89c485a8a24d0f378a1a7960e17fa1d