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Keratitis

Keratitis: Introduction

Keratitis: Any inflammation of the cornea of the eye. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Keratitis is available below.

Symptoms of Keratitis

• Red eye
• Eye inflammation
• Watering eye
• Severe eye pain
• Blurred vision
• more symptoms...»

See full list of 7 symptoms of Keratitis

Treatments for Keratitis

• Pupil dilating eye drops
• Treatment of the underlying cause of keratitis
• more treatments...»

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Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Keratitis:

• Vision & Eye Health: Home Testing:
  • Home Eye Tests
  • Home Vision Tests
• more...»

Wrongly Diagnosed with Keratitis?

• Misdiagnosis of Keratitis
• Failure to diagnose Keratitis
• Hidden causes of Keratitis (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Keratitis

Keratitis: Deaths

Read more about Deaths and Keratitis.

Types of Keratitis

• Herpes keratitis
• Bacterial keratitis
• Viral keratitis
• Exposure keratitis
• more types...»

Read more about Types of Keratitis

Keratitis: Complications

Review possible medical complications related to Keratitis:

• Corneal ulcer
• Loss of sight (see Blindness) - mainly from the bacterial type
• Blindness
• more complications...»

Causes of Keratitis

• Corneal infection
• Staphylococcus
• Streptococcus
• Enterobacteria
• Pseudomonas (type of Nosocomial infections)
• more causes...»

See full list of 11 causes of Keratitis

More information about causes of Keratitis:

• Underlying causes of Keratitis
• Keratitis as a complication caused by other conditions
• Keratitis as a symptom

Disease Topics Related To Keratitis

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Keratitis:

• Band keratitis
• Corneal ulcer
• Bacterial keratitis
• Viral keratitis
• Fungal keratitis
• more related diseases...»

Keratitis: Undiagnosed Conditions

Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:

• Vision & Eye: serious diseases often undiagnosed:
  • Glaucoma -- Undiagnosed
  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration -- Undiagnosed
  • Cataract -- Undiagnosed
  • Diabetic Retinopathy -- Undiagnosed
  • more ...»
• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Keratitis: Research Doctors & Specialists

Research related physicians and medical specialists:

• Eye Health Specialists (Ophthalmology):
  • Ophthalmology (Eye Specialist)
• more specialists...»

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Latest Treatments for Keratitis

• Bacitracin
• Erythromycin
• Trifluorothymidine
• Acyclovir
• Famciclovir
• more treatments...»

See full list of 14 latest treatments for Keratitis

Keratitis: Animations

More Keratitis animations & videos

Research about Keratitis

Visit our research pages for current research about Keratitis treatments.

Clinical Trials for Keratitis

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Keratitis include:

• The Efficacy of Two Potential Diagnostic Assays for Herpes Simplex Keratitis (HSK) - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Herpetic Eye Disease Study (HEDS) I - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Prednisolone Phosphate,Acyclovir
• Herpetic Eye Disease Study (HEDS) II - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Acyclovir
• Screening for NEI Clinical Studies - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Evaluation and Treatment of Patients With Corneal and External Diseases - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Standard of care treatment
• more trials...»

See full list of 22 Clinical Trials for Keratitis

Statistics for Keratitis

• Medical statistics for Keratitis
• Death and Mortality statistics for Keratitis
• Society statistics for Keratitis

Keratitis: Broader Related Topics

• Eye conditions
• Cornea disorders
• Inflammatory conditions that may be pathogenic or non-pathogenic
• Eye and vision conditions
• Head conditions
• more types...»

Types of Keratitis

Keratitis Message Boards

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Definitions of Keratitis:

Inflammation of the cornea. - (Source - Diseases Database)

Inflammation of the cornea causing watery painful eyes and blurred vision - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

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