Infectious keratitis is a major global cause of visual impairment and blindness, often affecting
marginalized populations. Proper diagnosis of the causative organism is critical, and …

Preferred Practice Pattern® guidelines are developed by the Academy's H. Dunbar Hoskins
Jr., MD Center for Quality Eye Care without any external financial support. Authors and …

Contact lens-related problems are common and can result in severe sight-threatening
complications or contact lens drop out if not addressed properly. We systematically reviewed …

Purpose: To assess the efficacy of corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) in the management
of infectious keratitis. Methods: Comprehensive literature search was performed in …

Purpose.: The purpose of this study was to determine whether clinical signs of infectious
keratitis can be used to identify the causative organism. Methods.: Eighty photographs of …

Ocular graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) occurs in more than half of patients who develop
chronic GVHD after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), causing prolonged …

Purpose: Understanding the spectrum of pathogens in a given geographic region is
important when deciding on empiric antibiotic therapy. In this study, we evaluate the …

Bacterial keratitis continues to be one of the leading causes of corneal blindness in the
developed as well as the developing world, despite swift progress since the dawn of the …

Background Severe bacterial keratitis (BK) typically requires intensive antimicrobial therapy.
Empiric therapy is usually with a topical fluoroquinolone or fortified aminoglycoside …

Purpose: The aim of this study was to review the demographics, causative organisms,
seasonal and geographic variation, and antimicrobial resistance patterns of microbial …