Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Jan 2012)
Oral cyclosporine therapy for refractory severe vernal keratoconjunctivitis
- Nikhil S Gokhale,
- Rohini Samant,
- Vishnu Sharma
Affiliations
- Nikhil S Gokhale
- Rohini Samant
- Vishnu Sharma
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.95878
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 60,
no. 3
pp. 220 – 223
Abstract
We report the success of oral cyclosporine therapy in a patient with severe vision-threatening vernal keratoconjunctivitis. A child presented with severe allergy which was not controlled with topical steroids, cyclosporine and mast cell stabilizers. Oral steroids were required repeatedly to suppress inflammation. Child showed a dramatic improvement and stabilization with oral cyclosporine therapy. Oral cyclosporine therapy can be tried in severe vision-threatening allergy refractory to conventional therapy.
Keywords
- Plateau iris
- primary angle closure glaucoma
- prevalence
- Enucleation
- India
- indications
- trends
- Closure glaucoma
- primary angle
- scanning electron microscopy
- trabecular
- Apoptosis
- caspase-3/7
- cigarette smoke toxicant
- hydroquinone
- Blepharophimosis
- cosmetic
- functional
- single stage
- Refractive error
- rural area
- school children
- use of spectacles
- Bietti′s crystalline dystrophy
- choroidal neovascular membrane
- ranibizumab
- Blepharoptosis
- epidermal cyst
- excision
- eyelid
- AcrySof SN60T9
- cataract
- phacoemulsification
- post-keratoplasty astigmatism
- toric intraocular lens
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- optic neuritis
- sphenoid sinus mucocele
- visual evoked response
- Cartridge tip
- descemet′s tear
- intraocular Lens
- phacoemulsification
- Allergy
- cyclosporine
- vernal keratoconjunctivitis
