A Case Series of Bee Sting Keratopathy With Different Outcomes in Malaysia

We report three patients with corneal bee sting at our tertiary care center in a three-year period starting from 2014 to 2016. All patients sustained a bee sting injury to the cornea. All patients received early preoperative topical antibiotics, topical cycloplegic and intensive topical steroids. Ho...

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Autores principales: Ang, Wen-Jeat, MD Kadir, Siti-Zakiah, Fadzillah, Abdul-Jalil, Zunaina, Embong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Ophthalmology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5356989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28357167
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1035
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author Ang, Wen-Jeat
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Fadzillah, Abdul-Jalil
Zunaina, Embong
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description We report three patients with corneal bee sting at our tertiary care center in a three-year period starting from 2014 to 2016. All patients sustained a bee sting injury to the cornea. All patients received early preoperative topical antibiotics, topical cycloplegic and intensive topical steroids. However, the timing of the initial presentation, the duration, and the location of the retained stinger differed in each case leading to different postsurgical outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-53569892017-03-29 A Case Series of Bee Sting Keratopathy With Different Outcomes in Malaysia Ang, Wen-Jeat MD Kadir, Siti-Zakiah Fadzillah, Abdul-Jalil Zunaina, Embong Cureus Ophthalmology We report three patients with corneal bee sting at our tertiary care center in a three-year period starting from 2014 to 2016. All patients sustained a bee sting injury to the cornea. All patients received early preoperative topical antibiotics, topical cycloplegic and intensive topical steroids. However, the timing of the initial presentation, the duration, and the location of the retained stinger differed in each case leading to different postsurgical outcomes. Cureus 2017-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5356989/ /pubmed/28357167 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1035 Text en Copyright © 2017, Ang et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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