Acanthamoeba Keratitis: Perspectives for Patients.

Conclusions: Delayed diagnosis of Acanthamoeba keratitis and disease severity significantly increase healing time and duration of treatment. The time to diagnosis and disease stage at diagnosis predict the duration of treatment, the final outcome, quality of life, and the requirement of surgery. These data would allow to promptly inform patients about long term disease timeline, future outcomes, improving disease acceptance and quality of life.
PMID: 33151784 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Eye Research - November 5, 2020 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Bonini S, Di Zazzo A, Varacalli G, Coassin M Tags: Curr Eye Res Source Type: research