[Herpetic recurrence prophylaxis with trifluorothymidine after keratoplasty (author's transl)].
18 patients with metaherpetic corneal lesions were treated after perforating keratoplasty additionally with the virostatic trifluorothymidine to prevent a herpetic recurrence. During a follow-up period of at least 1 year there was a recurrence in 11% of the cases. This result is - compared with 53% recurrences of previous own cases before the use of a specific virostatic-considerably better.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007635:Keratitis, Dendritic / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D013936:Thymidine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D014271:Trifluridine / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D014271:Trifluridine; D013936:Thymidine
Rezidivprophylaxe mit Trifluorthymidin nach Keratoplastik bei Herpes corneae.