title: [Strengthen the study of several issues on diagnosis and treatment of the corneal herpetic endotheliitis].
abstract: Herpes simplex keratitis (HSK), including epithelial keratitis, stromal keratitis, and endotheliitis, is one of the major blinding eye diseases in China. Corneal herpetic endotheliitis has a variety of clinical manifestations, which causes much difficulty for diagnosis and treatment. This paper suggests a uniform classification of corneal herpetic endotheliitis, which helps to the set up and wide application of a standard treatment protocol. As a result, the cure rate would be increased significantly, corneal endothelium loss due to misdiagnosis would be reduced, and finally the blindness rate of HSK would be lowered.
authors.affiliation: Shandong Eye Hospital, Jinan 250021, China. weiyunshi@163.com
authors.forename: Wei-Yun
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D004728:Endothelium, Corneal / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D016849:Keratitis, Herpetic / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*