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OPHTHALMIC IMAGE
Year : 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 207

Precipitation of herpetic stromal keratitis after collagen cross-linking for keratoconus


Sankara Eye Hospital, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India

Date of Web Publication19-Dec-2019

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Dr. Sudhakar Potti
Sankara Eye Hospital, Guntur -Vijayawada Expressway, Pedakakani, Guntur - 522 509, Andhra Pradesh
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Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1236_19

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Potti S, Bagad PA, Khatib N, Bevara A. Precipitation of herpetic stromal keratitis after collagen cross-linking for keratoconus. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:207

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Potti S, Bagad PA, Khatib N, Bevara A. Precipitation of herpetic stromal keratitis after collagen cross-linking for keratoconus. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 29];68:207. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2020/68/1/207/273186



A 22-year-old-male in whom collagen cross-linking (CXL) was done elsewhere 3 years ago for keratoconus presented with 4 × 3 mm deep corneal neovascularization [Figure 1]a in arborizing pattern [confirmed with corneal fluorescein angiography [Figure 1]c and [Figure 1]d] involving midstroma [confirmed with anterior-segment optical coherence tomography (OCT) [Figure 1]b)] with feeder vessels from 5 o'clock limbus in left eye. A presumptive diagnosis of chronic herpetic stromal keratitis was made and treated with oral acyclovir and topical low-dose steroids, causing partial regression of neovascularization with appearance of ghost vessels [Figure 1]e and [Figure 1]f.
Figure 1: (a) Cornea of left eye showing 4 × 3 mm deep corneal neovascularization. (b) Anterior segment OCT showing involvement of midstroma (c) Corneal fluorescein angiography showing an arborizing network of neovasularization. (d) Late phase corneal fluorescein angiography showing leakage from the new vessels. (e) Cornea of left eye showing decrease in neovascularization with appearance of ghost vessels and stromal scarring after treatment. (f) Corneal fluorescein angiography showing ghost vessels (red arrows) and patchy stromal scarring (blue arrow) and decreased leakage after treatment

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Ultraviolet-A (UVA) light, epithelial/stromal trauma, or actual damage to corneal nerves during Collagen cross-linking (CXL) could trigger reactivation of latent Herpes infections even in patients with no previous history.[1],[2]

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Kymionis GD, Portaliou DM, Bouzoukis DI, Suh LH, Pallikaris AI, Markomanolakis M, et al. Herpetic keratitis with iritis after corneal crosslinking with riboflavin and ultraviolet A for keratoconus. J Cataract Refract Surg 2007;33:1982-4.  Back to cited text no. 1
    
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Yuksel N, Bilgihan K, Hondur AM. Herpetic keratitis after corneal collagen cross-linking with riboflavin and ultraviolet-A for progressive keratoconus. Int Ophthalmol 2011; 31:513-5.  Back to cited text no. 2
    


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