Three cases of acute sterile corneal melt after cataract surgery

PURPOSE: To report three cases of acute sterile corneal melt after cataract surgery. OBSERVATIONS: Case 1 was a 21-year-old male presenting with a corneal perforation of his right eye at 10 days after cataract surgery. Case 2 was a 67-year-old male who developed a corneal melt in his left eye at 15...

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Autores principales: Harada, Kohei, Mohamed, Yasser Helmy, Uematsu, Masafumi, Inoue, Daisuke, Ueki, Ryotaro, Harada, Shiori, Imamura, Naoki, Miwako, Inamoto, Kitaoka, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6297052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30582074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2018.12.004
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Sumario:PURPOSE: To report three cases of acute sterile corneal melt after cataract surgery. OBSERVATIONS: Case 1 was a 21-year-old male presenting with a corneal perforation of his right eye at 10 days after cataract surgery. Case 2 was a 67-year-old male who developed a corneal melt in his left eye at 15 days after cataract surgery. Case 3 was a 70-year-old female with a corneal melt of her left eye at 7 days after cataract surgery. None of the cases exhibited any signs of infection. Topical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use, dry eye, systemic autoimmune diseases, and/or a combination of these were present in patients who developed corneal melt after cataract surgery. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPORTANCE: Corneal melt cases can occur early after cataract surgery, thereby leading to corneal thinning and perforation.

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