Prophylactic Perioperative Antiviral Therapy for LASIK in Patients With Inactive Herpetic Keratitis
- 1 April 2006
- journal article
- Published by SLACK, Inc. in Journal of Refractive Surgery
- Vol. 22 (4), 404-406
- https://doi.org/10.3928/1081-597x-20060401-19
Abstract
Journal of Refractive Surgery | ABSTRACTPURPOSE: To report the outcome of LASIK in patients with inactive herpetic keratitis in which perioperative antiviral prophylaxis was used to prevent the recurrence of ocular herpes.METHODS: We report an uncontrolled series of five patients with inactive herpetic keratitis for at least 1 year before surgery in whom LASIK was successfully performed. All patients showed normal topography,This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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