Keratomycosis Caused By Pigmented Fungi

Keratomycosis is a major cause of blindness, especially in the developing world. A major proportion of these are caused by fungi, of which pigmented fungi is a good number. Pigmented fungal corneal ulcers may present with surface pigmentation, helping in diagnosis but the presumptive treatment is usually started after evaluation of smears made from scrapping samples. Aggressive treatment with topical anti-fungals help accelerated healing in most of them but few still worsen and need therapeutic keratoplasty. In this study, we evaluated the cases of pigmented Keratomycosis presenting in a tertiary care center for various factors like demographic details, risk factors, clinical characterstics, response to treatment and prognosis

Algorithmic approach in the diagnosis of uveitis.

Uveitis is caused by disorders of diverse etiologies including wide spectrum of infectious and non-infectious causes. Often clinical signs are less specific and shared by different diseases. On several occasions, uveitis represents diseases that are developing elsewhere in the body and ocular signs may be the first evidence of such systemic diseases. Uveitis specialists need to have a thorough knowledge of all entities and their work up has to be systematic and complete including systemic and ocular examinations. Creating an algorithmic approach on critical steps to be taken would help the ophthalmologist in arriving at the etiological diagnosis.