Delfín Ortega-Sánchez, Esther Sanz de la Cal, Jaime Ibáñez Quintana
Literacies and the Development of Social, Critical, and Creative Thought in Textbook Activities for Primary Education in Social Sciences and the Spanish Language
Frontiers in psychology
present study aimed epidemiologically evaluate patients infectious keratitis following corneal transplantation retrospective study analyzed medical records patients underwent keratoplasty march 2014 march 2022 tertiary center total seventyfive patients evaluated data classified based culture results type microorganisms involved treatment requirements type primary keratoplasty performed seventyfive patients evaluated study mean age 459 years 2295 years mean duration first surgery incidence infectious keratitis 143 years cases occurred first year 562 bacterial fungal keratitis 217 139 126 cases undergoing penetrating keratoplasty pk endothelial keratoplasty ek anterior lamellar keratoplasty alk occurred respectively streptococcus viridans 93 staphylococcus aureus 66 highest prevalence across various smear culture results grampositive gramnegative fungal negative culture significant differences found endophthalmitis rates p 0797 necessity tectonic grafts p 0790 similarly choice surgical method pk alk ek showed significant impact need tectonic grafts p 045 rate endophthalmitis p 055 incidence keratitis corneal graft 17 streptococcus viridans staphylococcus aureus common microorganisms rate endophthalmitis associated postkeratoplasty keratitis 0053 correlation necessity tectonic graft incidence endophthalmitis type microorganisms involved