Acanthamoeba keratitis therapy: time to cure and visual outcome analysis for different antiamoebic therapies in 227 cases.
CONCLUSION: PHMB 0.02% monotherapy for the initial treatment of AK is as effective as biguanide+diamidine combination therapy. Chlorhexidine monotherapy was too infrequent for comparison. The outcome data are the most detailed available.
PMID: 31401556 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Papa V, Rama P, Radford C, Minassian DC, Dart JKG Tags: Br J Ophthalmol Source Type: research
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