Degeneration and Regeneration of Subbasal Corneal Nerves after Infectious Keratitis: A Longitudinal in Vivo Confocal Microscopy Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2200-2209

  Müller, Rodrigo T ^a,b   Abedi, Farshad ^a   Cruzat, Andrea ^a   Witkin, Deborah ^a   Baniasadi, Neda ^a   Cavalcanti, Bernardo M ^a   Jamali, Arsia ^a   Chodosh, James ^a   Dana, Reza ^a   Pavan Langston, Deborah ^a   Hamrah, Pedram ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT;

ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL KERATITIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTIOUS KERATITIS; KERATITIS; KERATOMYCOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLIT LAMP; TREATMENT DURATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA; CORNEAL ULCER; EYE INFECTIONS; INNERVATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORNEA; CORNEAL ULCER; EYE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 84939546289     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2015.06.047     Document Type: Article

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