Postkeratoplasty crystalline deposits mimicking bacterial infectious crystalline keratopathy.
Three corneal transplant patients developed white, crystalline, anterior stromal lesions in their grafts while receiving long-term topical corticosteroid therapy. A presumed diagnosis of infectious crystalline keratopathy was made in each case. However, histologic examination of the lesions failed to show gram-positive cocci. A fungal infiltrate was present in the first two patients, and calcium deposits produced the lesion in the third patient.
Weisenthal
R W
RW
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.
Krachmer
J H
JH
Folberg
R
R
Dunn
S P
SP
Whitson
W E
WE
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D003318:Corneal Opacity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D003319:Corneal Stroma / Q000473:pathology; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D003460:Crystallization; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009181:Mycoses / Q000175:diagnosis; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000009:adverse effects
D011239:Prednisolone