title: [Considerations on the meta-herpetic keratitis (author's transl)].
abstract: The meta-herpetic keratitis is clinically characterized by the occurrence of a parenchymatous keratitis due to iterative herpetic corneal wounds. The rupture of the Bowman membrane which makes such a deep wound possible is performed by an enzyme: collagenase. This parenchymatous keratitis is rarely due to an extension of the viral infection. Most often it has an immunologic origin. It is a disciform keratitis due to a viral allergy, or a polymorphic keratitis connected with a bacterial, often tubercular, origin. In this case, one always notices a characteristic sugar tongs like composite limbic vascularization. Recovery can only be obtained by a specific desensitization.
mesh_terms: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D003320:Corneal Ulcer / Q000150:complications / Q000201:enzymology; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D007635:Keratitis, Dendritic / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003012:Microbial Collagenase / Q000032:analysis; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000276:immunology; D012008:Recurrence; D018139:Simplexvirus / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D003012:Microbial Collagenase
vernacular_title: Considérations sur la kératite méta-herpétique.