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    Eye (Lond). 1991;5 ( Pt 4):425-31.

    The role of penetrating keratoplasty in the management of microbial keratitis.

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    Pocklington Transplantation Unit & Corneal Clinic, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.

    Abstract

    Penetrating keratoplasty was performed as an emergency procedure in 52 eyes which had perforated from acute microbial keratitis and in a further 11 where perforation had not yet occurred. The results are compared with those of keratoplasty in 33 non-infected perforations and 20 eyes where there had been microbial keratitis which had responded to medical therapy leaving a scarred cornea. This latter group had both a better five year survival (90%) compared to all the others (51%), p less than 0.05, and achieved significantly better visual acuities, p less than 0.005.

    PMID:
    1743358
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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