Microbial Keratitis in Cairo University Hospitals

Kasr El Aini Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infective Keratitis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05387993

MS-427-2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study was to identify the incidence of infective keratitis presenting to the ophthalmology emergency department at Cairo University hospital, the risk factors and the bacterial/fungal spectrum causing the ulcers and to determine the best possible empirical therapy followed by specific therapy after obtaining culture results.

Enrollment: 85 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients presenting at the casualty who are clinically diagnosed as infectious keratitis , of all age groups and including both genders.

Exclusion criteria

Patients presenting with clinical picture suggestive of

• Viral keratitis solely without superimposed secondary infection.
• Non infectious keratitis as peripheral ulcerative keratitis ( e.g. Mooren's ulcer, marginal keratitis, autoimmune keratitis )