keratitis
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Keratitis is a condition in which the eye's cornea, the clear dome on the front surface of the eye, becomes inflamed. The condition is often marked by moderate to intense pain and usually involves any of the following symptoms: pain, impaired eyesight, photophobia (light sensitivity), red eye and a 'gritty' sensation. Diagnosis of infectious keratitis is usually made clinically based on the signs and symptoms as well as eye examination, but corneal scrapings may be obtained and evaluated using microbiological culture or other testing to identify the causative pathogen.
Key facts
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- An eye with non-ulcerative sterile keratitis.
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- Ophthalmology
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Research
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Classification (by chronicity)
- Acute
- Chronic
- Classification (infective)
- Viral
- Bacterial
- Fungal
- Amoebic
- Parasitic
- Classification (by stage of disease)
- Classification (by environmental aetiology)
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Prognosis
- In non-humans
- See also
- References
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Keratitis is a condition in which the eye's cornea, the clear dome on the front surface of the eye, becomes inflamed. The condition is often marked by moderate to intense pain and usually involves any of the following symptoms: pain, impaired eyesight, photophobia (light sensitivity), red eye and a 'gritty' sensation. Diagnosis of infectious keratitis is usually made clinically based on the signs and symptoms as well as eye examination, but corneal scrapings may be obtained and evaluated using microbiological culture or other testing to identify the causative pathogen.
==Classification (by chronicity)== thumb|right|Slit Lamp biomicroscopy of filamentary keratitis
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