The European Commission has approved SIFI's Akantior as the first therapy anywhere in the world for acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), an ultra-rare parasitic infection that can lead to blindness.
Diagnostic criteria included recurrent episodes of chronic red eye, watering, photophobia, blepharitis including recurrent styes or meibomian cysts, and a keratitis. Clinical features were graded as ...
Three eyes had stage 1 keratopathy with a history of previous herpes zoster keratitis, superficial punctate keratitis, and subepithelial haze or scarring in 2 eyes and filamentary keratopathy in 1 ...
Nondermatologic lesions, such as ocular damage (alkali keratitis, corneal abrasions), ear lesions, bone fractures, and contusive damage can also be caused by air bag deployment. Air bags are nylon ...