(1) The most common clinical finding were edentulous (67%), general pallor (44%), hyperpigmentation (33%), dry skin (26%) and arcus corneitis (26%).
Keratitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the cornea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Loosening of the sutures and keratitis were the main complications in the postoperative course.
(2) Since lymphocytic cells in intimate contact with degenerating keratocytes have previously been identified in the cornea, these observations provide a basis for the view that cell-mediated immunopathogenesis is involved in the etiology of herpetic stromal keratitis.
(3) The combined antiviral effects of acyclovir (ACV) and ribavirin (Rbv) on herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and pseudorabies virus (PRV) in cell cultures and on experimental HSV-1 keratitis in rabbits were studied.
(4) Only in one animal was an ulcerating keratitis seen to develop within three months in response to a dose of 45 Gy.
(5) Recent reports incriminating Acanthamoeba, a small free-living amoeba, wide-spread in environmental soils and waters, in acanthamoebic keratitis cases wearing soft contact lenses, drew attention to cleaning solutions for contact lenses.
(6) In contrast, the activities were lower in the affected eyes of patients with herpetic keratitis and vernal conjunctivitis than in the fellow normal eyes.
(7) Five aliphatic 5'-esters of IDU were synthesized and evaluated as prodrugs for potential use in the treatment of deep ocular infections such as stromal keratitis, iritis, and even retinitis.
(8) At 47-year-old right peripheral facial nerve palsy developed transiently with interstitial keratitis and episcleritis of the both eyes.
(9) To the best of our knowledge, unilateral neuroparalytic keratitis associated with congenital insensitivity to pain has not been reported.
(10) In the present study prevalences of the fourmain blinding eye lesions in persons aged 30 years or more were sclerosing keratitis (3.7%), iritis (8.7%), optic atrophy (14.2%) and choroidoretinitis (11.3%), and the prevalence of blindness was 4.2% (both eyes) and 2.0% (one eye).
(11) Two patients had herpes simplex infection of the fingertips (herpetic whitlow) associated with herpetic keratitis.
(12) 55 of the 76 patients had corneal involvement in the form of vernal keratitis or vernal ulcer.
(13) In one case the keratitis was caused by Bacillus cereus.
(14) We also examined a human cornea removed by penetrating keratoplasty after a clinical diagnosis of amoebic keratitis.
(15) A topical steroid is generally contraindicated in the presence of herpes simplex epithelial keratitis and has been implicated in prolonging the course of herpetic eye disease.
(16) Bacterial contamination of lens care systems is well known as a potential cause of keratitis in contact lens wearers.
(17) The inoculation of microfilariae of Onchocerca species into the eyes of laboratory animals may reproduce selected aspects of onchocercal eye disease, such as punctate keratitis.
(18) Two episodes of late-onset keratitis were associated with contact lens wear.
(19) The metaherpetic keratopathy develops on the basis of a disturbed metabolism after relapsing, mainly deep herpetic keratitis.
(20) Immunologic analysis of blood serum of 40 patients with purulent keratitis has shown disturbances in T- and B-systems of immunity, especially in moderate and severe degrees of the disease.