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Oral cyclosporine therapy for refractory severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis
We report the success of oral cyclosporine therapy in a patient with severe vision-threatening vernal keratoconjunctivitis. A child presented with severe allergy which was not controlled with topical steroids, cyclosporine and mast cell stabilizers. Oral steroids were required repeatedly to suppress...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361821/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22569387 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.95878 |
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author | Gokhale, Nikhil S Samant, Rohini Sharma, Vishnu |
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description | We report the success of oral cyclosporine therapy in a patient with severe vision-threatening vernal keratoconjunctivitis. A child presented with severe allergy which was not controlled with topical steroids, cyclosporine and mast cell stabilizers. Oral steroids were required repeatedly to suppress inflammation. Child showed a dramatic improvement and stabilization with oral cyclosporine therapy. Oral cyclosporine therapy can be tried in severe vision-threatening allergy refractory to conventional therapy. |
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spelling | pubmed-33618212012-06-01 Oral cyclosporine therapy for refractory severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis Gokhale, Nikhil S Samant, Rohini Sharma, Vishnu Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications We report the success of oral cyclosporine therapy in a patient with severe vision-threatening vernal keratoconjunctivitis. A child presented with severe allergy which was not controlled with topical steroids, cyclosporine and mast cell stabilizers. Oral steroids were required repeatedly to suppress inflammation. Child showed a dramatic improvement and stabilization with oral cyclosporine therapy. Oral cyclosporine therapy can be tried in severe vision-threatening allergy refractory to conventional therapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3361821/ /pubmed/22569387 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.95878 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communications Gokhale, Nikhil S Samant, Rohini Sharma, Vishnu Oral cyclosporine therapy for refractory severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis |
title | Oral cyclosporine therapy for refractory severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis |
title_full | Oral cyclosporine therapy for refractory severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis |
title_fullStr | Oral cyclosporine therapy for refractory severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis |
title_full_unstemmed | Oral cyclosporine therapy for refractory severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis |
title_short | Oral cyclosporine therapy for refractory severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis |
title_sort | oral cyclosporine therapy for refractory severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis |
topic | Brief Communications |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361821/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22569387 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.95878 |
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