Keratitis is usually easy to treat and clears up quickly. But if an infection goes deeper than the surface of your cornea, it can leave scars that damage your vision or even cause blindness.

Keratitis is an eye condition in which the cornea —the clear, round dome covering the eye’s iris and pupil—becomes swollen or inflamed, making the eye red and painful.

Keratitis is a medical term for corneal inflammation. The cornea is a clear dome of epithelium that covers the front of the eye, allowing light to pass through. It covers the iris (colored part of ...

One of the most severe complications of HSV is herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK), which affects the cornea of the eye and can lead to visual impairment or even blindness.

A fungal keratitis is an 'inflammation of the eye's cornea' (called keratitis) that results from infection by a fungal organism. Keratomycosis is the latin terminology equivalent of fungal ...

Fungal keratitis at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Cornea. 2006;25 (3):264-267. Sangwan VS, Ramamurthy B, Shah U, Garg P, Sridhar MS, Rao GN.

Acanthamoeba keratitis, which primarily affects otherwise healthy people who wear contact lenses, may lead to vision loss, with some patients requiring a corneal transplant.

Herpes Stromal Keratitis: Erosion of Ocular Immune Privilege by Herpes Simplex Virus Jared E Knickelbein; Kristine-Ann Buela; Robert L Hendricks Disclosures Future Virology. 2010;5 (6):699-708. 0 ...

Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is a protozoan infection associated with contact lens wear, particularly unhygienic storage and cleaning of contact lenses. The microscopic organism commonly exists in ...

Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium Published: 20 November 2003 Neurotrophic keratitis S Bonini, P Rama, D Olzi & A Lambiase Eye 17, 989–995 (2003) Cite this article ...

Bacterial keratitis is a condition that involves an infection of the cornea. This is the clear dome that covers the iris and pupil of the eye. Bacterial infection of the cornea can lead to ...