Abstract
PURPOSE: We described the rate of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) in a referral eye center in São Paulo, Brazil, through a retrospective review of clinical and laboratorial records of patients over 2 decades. METHODS: From 1987 to 2006, a total of 581 requests for amoebic laboratory workup in cases of infectious keratitis were investigated. Statistical analyses were applied to analyze a tendency of AK cases. RESULTS: Acanthamoeba species were cultured from corneal scrapings of 185 patients, 5 of them with bilateral infection. Eighty-three percent of those patients were related with contact lens wear. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggested that patients with AK have persisted and increased over time at our ophthalmology center. Contact lenses showed to be a potential risk factor. Amoebic corneal infection can be considered as a new but well-established disease in Brazilian ophthalmology and visual sciences.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 516-519 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Cornea |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2009 |
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Keywords
- Acanthamoeba
- Case series
- Keratitis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ophthalmology
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Twenty years of acanthamoeba keratitis. / Carvalho, F. R S; Foronda, A. S.; Mannis, Mark J; Höfling-Lima, A. L.; Belfort, R.; Freitas, Denise De.
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T1 - Twenty years of acanthamoeba keratitis
AU - Carvalho, F. R S
AU - Foronda, A. S.
AU - Mannis, Mark J
AU - Höfling-Lima, A. L.
AU - Belfort, R.
AU - Freitas, Denise De
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - PURPOSE: We described the rate of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) in a referral eye center in São Paulo, Brazil, through a retrospective review of clinical and laboratorial records of patients over 2 decades. METHODS: From 1987 to 2006, a total of 581 requests for amoebic laboratory workup in cases of infectious keratitis were investigated. Statistical analyses were applied to analyze a tendency of AK cases. RESULTS: Acanthamoeba species were cultured from corneal scrapings of 185 patients, 5 of them with bilateral infection. Eighty-three percent of those patients were related with contact lens wear. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggested that patients with AK have persisted and increased over time at our ophthalmology center. Contact lenses showed to be a potential risk factor. Amoebic corneal infection can be considered as a new but well-established disease in Brazilian ophthalmology and visual sciences.
AB - PURPOSE: We described the rate of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) in a referral eye center in São Paulo, Brazil, through a retrospective review of clinical and laboratorial records of patients over 2 decades. METHODS: From 1987 to 2006, a total of 581 requests for amoebic laboratory workup in cases of infectious keratitis were investigated. Statistical analyses were applied to analyze a tendency of AK cases. RESULTS: Acanthamoeba species were cultured from corneal scrapings of 185 patients, 5 of them with bilateral infection. Eighty-three percent of those patients were related with contact lens wear. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggested that patients with AK have persisted and increased over time at our ophthalmology center. Contact lenses showed to be a potential risk factor. Amoebic corneal infection can be considered as a new but well-established disease in Brazilian ophthalmology and visual sciences.
KW - Acanthamoeba
KW - Case series
KW - Keratitis
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