All the experts recommended removing contact lenses while washing your face, showering, or swimming, always cleaning contacts ...

Even though microbial keratitis is a preventable cause of blindness, it's a complex infection to treat, and many patients ...

The following is a summary of “Corneal cross-linking for infectious keratitis of various causes: an umbrella review,” published in the April 2025 issue of BMC Ophthalmology by Farhadi et al.

Lead researcher Lottie Brown from the University of Manchester today publishes the first estimation of global fungal keratitis figures in Lancet Infectious Diseases. Infection of the transparent ...

Contact lens–associated Acanthamoeba keratitis continues to be a significant ... while wearing lenses has been a known risk factor for infection for decades, this behavior in several contact ...

The European Commission has approved SIFI's Akantior as the first therapy anywhere in the world for acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), an ultra-rare parasitic infection that can lead to blindness.

Brett Bielory, MD, discusses his poster at the ASCRS annual meeting, which focuses on an under-diagnosed corneal pathology: neurotrophic keratitis.

Ointments have the advantage of increased dwell time in the eye, but often patients and parents ... the other has been demonstrated. Microbial keratitis is usually treated as it is for adults ...

Lotemax, as with other ophthalmic corticosteroids, is contraindicated in most viral diseases of the cornea and conjunctiva including epithelial herpes simplex keratitis (dendritic keratitis ...