Article
Community-acquired pseudomonas keratitis: an unusual presentation in a 2-month old infant that led to corneal transplant.
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TEIXEIRA, Fernando Henrique Flores et al. Community-acquired pseudomonas keratitis: an unusual presentation in a 2-month old infant that led to corneal transplant. Arquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia, v. 85, n. 2, p. 200-201, 2022
0004-2749
10.5935/0004-2749.20220091
Autor
Teixeira, Fernando Henrique Flores
Biancardi, Ana Luiza
Vieira, Monick Goecking Cardoso
Alves, Julia
Tavares, Nycholas
Moreira, Paulo Phillipe
Curi, André Luiz Land
Resumen
Corneal disease remains the leading cause of monocular blindness worldwide, especially affecting marginalized populations. Corneal opacities, which are largely
caused by infectious keratitis, are the fourth leading
cause of blindness globally and responsible for 10% of
avoidable visual impairment in the world’s least developed countries(
¹)
. Herein, we report a case of aggressive
infectious keratitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
in an otherwise healthy 2-month-old infant with no
previous risk factors of ocular infections, which led to
corneal transplant.