ABSTRACT To describe a case of treatment-resistant corneal infiltrate in a patient 4 months after penetrating keratoplasty. The etiological diagnosis was established through microbiology and in vivo corneal confocal microscopy. A 80-year-old female patient presented with stromal infiltrate in the donor corneal bud 4 months following penetrating keratoplasty. Initially, the corneal culture was positive for Candida parapsilosis. In vivo corneal confocal microscopy demonstrated approximately 4 μm hyperreflective spherical microorganisms with a suggestive Candida spp. A second corneal culture was positive […]

Purpose: To define the epidemiological aspects of the patients submitted to keratoplasty in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil and the main indications for this procedure. Methods: We conducted an observational, descriptive and retrospective study with the data of 1161 patients submitted to cornea transplantation from january 2008 to december 2010, at the Transplantation Center of Santa Catarina. The analyzed data were: age, gender, origin, transplant date, indication and transplanted eye. Results: The mean age was 45.51 years and men […]