Visual impairment in fungal vs bacterial corneal ulcers four years after successful antimicrobial treatment
American Journal of Ophthalmology Mar 25, 2019
Prajna NV, et al. - In a tertiary eye hospital in South India, 152 individuals were studied to examine the longitudinal visual acuity results of fungal corneal ulcers in comparison to bacterial ulcers. They noticed a worse outcome of the vision in the better eye when compared with 20/60 for 24.0% of individuals in the fungal group and 20.0% of people in the bacterial group, 4 years after treatment for keratitis. They found comparable median best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) in the affected eye at the 4-year visit in the fungal vs bacterial groups. Although, they reported that vision poorer than 20/400 was more frequent in the fungal ulcer group after spectacle correction and contact lens correction.
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