(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.
Otitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(2) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
(3) The unit was used to treat 110 patients with chronic purulent middle otitis.
(4) TE-031 was ineffective in 1 case of otitis media, but efficacious in 10 of 10 (100%) cases of upper respiratory infection, 15 of 18 (83.3%) cases of bronchitis and pneumonia, 5 of 6 (83.3%) cases of pertussis, 13 of 13 (100%) cases of mycoplasmal pneumonia, 4 of 4 (100%) cases of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia, 16 of 16 (100%) cases of gastroenteritis (including 15 cases of Campylobacter gastroenteritis), and 1 (100%) case of impetigo.
(5) In severely affected children who have chronic otitis media with effusion resistant to medical therapy, adenoidectomy is an effective treatment.
(6) The material consisted of serially sectioned eustachian tubes of 26 normal temporal bones and four pathologic temporal bones, three of them with simple chronic otitis media and one with cholesteatoma.
(7) The current medical management of children with chronic suppurative otitis media without cholesteatoma unresponsive to local treatment and oral antibiotics is intravenous antibiotic therapy in the hospital setting.
(8) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
(9) The use of homografts appears to be a promising method of repairing the sequelae of chronic otitis.
(10) Three cases of malignant external otitis with varied clinical causes are presented.
(11) A review of the 20th century English-language literature has produced a total of 320 cases of tuberculous otitis media or otomastoiditis, of which a surprising 93 cases have been reported in the 5-year period 1986-1990.
(12) The rate of surgery reached a level, among 3-year-old children in particular (25.0 per 1000 cases of otitis among boys, 23.9 per 1000 cases of otitis among girls), that some authors have termed "epidemic."
(13) These infections include chronic otitis media, chronic sinusitis and mastoiditis, chronic recurrent tonsillitis and lung abscesses.
(14) Glomus tumors in children may be hidden by otitis media and appear more likely to be endocrine active.
(15) The major pathogens causing acute otitis media (AOM) are Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, with Moraxella catarrhalis, Streptococcus pyogenes, and Staphylococcus aureus less frequently isolated.
(16) The mothers of children who experienced six or more episodes of otitis media in the first 2 years of life rated their children as significantly more demanding at age two and at follow-up 6 months later than did the mothers of children who experienced no more than one episode of the illness.
(17) Amoxicillin-clavulanate potassium is effective in vitro against all bacterial pathogens causing acute otitis media and has been reported to be effective when given twice daily for urinary tract infections, acute otitis media and respiratory tract infections.
(18) The round window niche and membrane can be involved in clinical problems including perilymphatic fistulas, sensorineural hearing loss in otitis media, and a variety of others.
(19) If a chronic inflammation in the middle ear is suspected, HRCT is the study of choice to differentiate cholesteatoma from chronic otitis media.
(20) Although significantly higher than in uninfected children, auditory canal temperatures of children with acute otitis media reflected elevated rectal temperatures and not differences in auditory canal temperatures between ears.