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Role of potassium hydroxide preparation in the management of mycotic corneal ulcers.

Amit Agarwal, Rachna Agarwal.   

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Year:  2012        PMID: 22824614      PMCID: PMC3442481          DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.98732

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Indian J Ophthalmol        ISSN: 0301-4738            Impact factor:   1.848


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Dear Editor, This refers to a well-drafted article by Nath et al., published in a recent issue of the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology.[1] We would like to draw attention to a few points. In the presented study, the authors found the presence of fungal elements by 10% KOH smear in only 65.2% cases, which is quite less than our practical experience and from the results of other studies. Sharma et al.,[2] found fungal filaments in 100% and 81.2% of the corneal scrapings by the KOH method in the two phases of their study, while Gopinathan et al.,[3] found it to be 91% in their study. In most of the private practitioners and smaller centers where culture facilities are not available, KOH smear is the only reliable and easy-to-use diagnostic tool, and it works in 90–95% of the cases. Secondly, the treatment of perforated fungal ulcers needs to be separated from the ulcers without perforations, as the eye can sometimes be saved only by therapeutic keratoplasty,[4] although in smaller perforations cyanoacrylate glue also works very well.[5]
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1.  Early diagnosis of mycotic keratitis: predictive value of potassium hydroxide preparation.

Authors:  S Sharma; M Silverberg; P Mehta; U Gopinathan; V Agrawal; T J Naduvilath
Journal:  Indian J Ophthalmol       Date:  1998-03       Impact factor: 1.848

Review 2.  Therapeutic keratoplasty for infectious keratitis: a review of the literature.

Authors:  Parul Sony; Namrata Sharma; Rasik B Vajpayee; Manotosh Ray
Journal:  CLAO J       Date:  2002-07

Review 3.  The epidemiological features and laboratory results of fungal keratitis: a 10-year review at a referral eye care center in South India.

Authors:  Usha Gopinathan; Prashant Garg; Merle Fernandes; Savitri Sharma; Sreedharan Athmanathan; Gullapalli N Rao
Journal:  Cornea       Date:  2002-08       Impact factor: 2.651

4.  Clinical experience with N-butyl cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive in fungal keratitis.

Authors:  Prashant Garg; Usha Gopinathan; Rishita Nutheti; Gullapalli N Rao
Journal:  Cornea       Date:  2003-07       Impact factor: 2.651

5.  Mycotic corneal ulcers in upper Assam.

Authors:  Reema Nath; Syamanta Baruah; Lahari Saikia; Bhanu Devi; A K Borthakur; J Mahanta
Journal:  Indian J Ophthalmol       Date:  2011 Sep-Oct       Impact factor: 1.848

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