Artículos de revistas
Twenty Years of Acanthamoeba Keratitis
Fecha
2009Registro en:
CORNEA, v.28, n.5, p.516-519, 2009
0277-3740
Autor
CARVALHO, F. R. S.
FORONDA, A. S.
MANNIS, M. J.
HOEFLING-LIMA, A. L.
BELFORT JR., R.
FREITAS, Denise de
Institución
Resumen
Purpose: We described the rate of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) in a referral eye center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, through a retrospective review of clinical and laboratorial records of patients over 2 decades. Methods: From 1987 to 2006, a total of 581 requests for amoebic laboratory workup in cases of infections keratitis were investigated. Statistical analyses were applied to analyze a tendency of AK cases. Results: Acanthamoeba species were cultured from corneal scrapings of 185 patients, 5 of them with bilateral infection. Eighty-three percent of those patients were related with contact lens wear. Conclusions: The results suggested that patients with AK have persisted and increased over time at our ophthalmology center. Contact lenses showed to be a potential risk factor. Amoebic corneal infection can be considered as a new but well-established disease ill Brazilian ophthalmology and visual sciences.