Very late onset corneal haze in a photorefractive keratectomy patient associated with presumed viral keratoconjuctivitis

We report a rare case of very late-onset haze triggered by viral conjunctivitis, >20 years after treatment of moderate myopia with photorefractive keratectomy (PRK), and its successful management.

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Autores principales: Efthymios, Karmiris, Genovefa, Machairoudia, John, Armenis, Michael, Magoulas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
Materias:
Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7508138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32461475
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1789_19
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author Efthymios, Karmiris
Genovefa, Machairoudia
John, Armenis
Michael, Magoulas
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spelling pubmed-75081382020-10-02 Very late onset corneal haze in a photorefractive keratectomy patient associated with presumed viral keratoconjuctivitis Efthymios, Karmiris Genovefa, Machairoudia John, Armenis Michael, Magoulas Indian J Ophthalmol Case Reports We report a rare case of very late-onset haze triggered by viral conjunctivitis, >20 years after treatment of moderate myopia with photorefractive keratectomy (PRK), and its successful management. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-06 2020-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7508138/ /pubmed/32461475 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1789_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Case Reports
Efthymios, Karmiris
Genovefa, Machairoudia
John, Armenis
Michael, Magoulas
Very late onset corneal haze in a photorefractive keratectomy patient associated with presumed viral keratoconjuctivitis
title Very late onset corneal haze in a photorefractive keratectomy patient associated with presumed viral keratoconjuctivitis
title_full Very late onset corneal haze in a photorefractive keratectomy patient associated with presumed viral keratoconjuctivitis
title_fullStr Very late onset corneal haze in a photorefractive keratectomy patient associated with presumed viral keratoconjuctivitis
title_full_unstemmed Very late onset corneal haze in a photorefractive keratectomy patient associated with presumed viral keratoconjuctivitis
title_short Very late onset corneal haze in a photorefractive keratectomy patient associated with presumed viral keratoconjuctivitis
title_sort very late onset corneal haze in a photorefractive keratectomy patient associated with presumed viral keratoconjuctivitis
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7508138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32461475
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1789_19
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