Keratomalacia

07/01/2005 - "Routine bacterial cultures of corneal scrapings from seven cats with either ulcerative feline keratitis, keratomalacia, or both yielded colonies which were identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing as Mycoplasma felis (six cases) and Mycoplasma gateae (one case). "
05/01/1999 - "The cause of corneal opacification in the acquired nontraumatic group was infectious keratitis in 215 (72.63%) eyes and keratomalacia in 81 (27.36%) eyes. "
08/01/2004 - "Inflammatory stromal keratopathies: medical management of stromal keratomalacia, stromal abscesses, eosinophilic keratitis, and band keratopathy in the horse."
09/01/1987 - "Conditions that affect the integrity of the ocular surface epithelium (exposure keratitis, neurotrophic keratitis, keratomalacia, recurrent corneal erosions) may also lead to development of sterile corneal ulcers. "
03/01/2015 - "In humans, the clinical efficacy of collagen cross-linking (CXL) has been described in the treatment of refractory infectious keratitis by arresting keratomalacia. "

10/01/2005 - "Keratomalacia secondary to vitamin-A deficiency is rare in neonates, although in children it is reported form developing countries."
10/01/2005 - "Keratomalacia in a neonate secondary to maternal vitamin A deficiency."
05/01/2005 - "We examined an adult patient who lost one eye due to severe keratomalacia secondary to self-induced vitamin A deficiency. "
03/01/1997 - " During 1991-93, 185 children under 15 years of age were admitted with vitamin A deficiency; 133 (72%) were under 5 years of age and 69 (37%) of them had keratomalacia. "
03/01/1997 - "The incidence of severe vitamin A deficiency of keratomalacia shows two peaks; one in early infancy (< 6 months) and the other in the pre-school age group. "

02/01/1980 - "In the keratomalacia group, nine died of reasons attributable to severe protein-energy malnutrition within 3 to 4 months after discharge from the hospital, five became totally blind, nine monocularily blind, and nine had adequate vision, although four of these had leucomas. "
07/01/1979 - "Role of vitamin A deficiency and protein-calorie malnutrition in keratomalacia and Bitot's spots (A clinicopathologic study)."
10/01/1964 - "KERATOMALACIA IN KWASHIORKOR AND MARASMUS."
01/01/1988 - "Keratomalacia is caused by a deficiency of vitamin A itself and/or protein-calorie malnutrition. "
07/21/1984 - "To test whether large doses of vitamin A supplements prevented keratomalacia, a case-control analysis was done, with patients with severe protein-energy malnutrition being used as controls. "

03/01/2000 - "Acute unilateral keratomalacia, probably secondary to trauma, occurred in a greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) transferred between zoologic facilities. "
07/01/1997 - "We correlated the degree of corneal xerosis with the occurrence of keratomalacia after corneal trauma. "
12/01/1980 - "The system developed here can be used to study the biochemical basis for ulceration in vitamin A deficiency, and the possibility exists that the ulceration characteristic of keratomalacia in people can be initiated by an environmental trauma."
05/01/1990 - "The important diseases in order of frequency were herpes simplex keratitis (42.8%), bacterial keratitis (17.4%), corneal injuries (15.7%), keratomalacia (10.0%), and trachoma (3.8%). "
06/01/1976 - "These are onchocercosis, trachoma, keratomalacia, cataract, glaucoma and injuries. "

09/01/1967 - "Xerophthalmia (keratomalacia) in Singapore--a study."
06/01/2007 - "Even if the main clinical finding is xerophthalmia with a high risk of keratomalacia, the visual prognosis can also be engaged by dysfunction of photoreceptors."
12/01/1982 - "Corneal xerophthalmia and keratomalacia."
03/01/1982 - "Corneal xerophthalmia and keratomalacia."
03/01/1982 - "Nutritional factors in corneal xerophthalmia and keratomalacia."