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Ulcerative Keratitis is a sight-threatening corneal infection. It is one of the most common global causes ofirreversible blindness due to corneal diseases. This case report highlights the potential of Ayurvedicmanagement in nonresponding ulcerative keratitis. A 20 year old boy came to the outpatient departmentwith redness, discharge, photophobia and defective vision in the right eye since 4 months following aforeign body injury. He was treated at leading ophthalmic hospital for keratitis but due to poor responsewas suggested keratoplasty and the patient had opted for Ayurvedic treatment. He was initially treated inthe OPD and since he started responding well to treatment, he was admitted in the hospital. He underwent Jaloukavacharana, Snehapana, Virechana, Nasya, Anjana, Tarpana and Putapaka. He wascompletely relieved of pain, redness, discharge, photophobia. His BCVA was hand movements at the timeof the first visit and it improved to 6/24 at the time of discharge. Ayurveda has an important role to playin infective eye diseases which needs to be explored scientifically.© 2018 Transdisciplinary University, Bangalore and World Ayurveda Foundation. Publishing Services byElsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Objective To investigate the effect and safety of early electric bronchoscope on patients with nonresponding pneumonia. Method Seventy non responding pneumonia patients were selected from our hospital , who received treatments from January 2015 to April 2016.According to the random table ,patients were randomly divided into the observation group(34 cases)and the control group(36 cases). According to the experience and sputum culture results,patients in the control group were given the conventional therapy,and patients in the observation group were given bronchoscope and transbronchil lung biopsy(TBLB). The effect of bronchoscopy,the treatment curative effect,duration of fever,the period of the elevated CRP dropped to baseline,the length of hospital stay and medical costs were compared between the two groups. Results The diagnostic rate of bronchoscopy and the positive rate of airway suction bacterial culture in the observation group were similar with those in the control group,with no significant differences. The positive rate of airway suction bacterial culture was significantly higher than that of sputum culture in the observation group. The positive rate of airway suction bacterial culture was higher than that of sputum culture in the control group ,but with no significant difference.The total effective rate in the observation group(87.1%)was significantly higher than that in the control group(58.8%). The duration of fever and the time of the elevated CRP dropped to baseline in the observation group were significantly shorter than those in the control group. The hospital stay and hospital costs in the observation group were also significantly lower than those in the control group. Conclusion Early bronchoscopy can obtain diagnosis evidence of etiology and histology and improve the diagnostic rate,meanwhile,it also has a therapeutic effect.It can improve the clinical treatment effect and shorten the healing time and the cost of hospitalization. In addition , early electronic bronchoscopy has fewer adverse reactions and it may play an important role in diagnosis and treatment on nonresponding pneumonia patients.
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Non-responding pneumonia describes the situation, in which an inadequate clinical response is present de-spite antibiotic treatment. The incidence of treatment failure in community acquired pneumonia (CAP) can range up to 31%. At present, the diagnosis and treatment of this kind of disease remain a great challenge to CAP. For this reason, several stud-ies have attempted to establish risk factors and new strategies for the treatment of non-responding pneumonia. This article re-views the progress of the pathogeny and treatment of non-responding CAP.