eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | keratitis |
| Comorbidity | C0456909|blindness |
| Sentences | 14 |
| PubMedID- 20628567 | Hsv1 is the causative agent of herpes keratitis, the leading cause of blindness by infection, of herpes encephalitis, and of eczema herpeticum in patients with atopic dermatitis [24]. |
| PubMedID- 24465545 | Hsv-1-induced corneal scarring (cs), also broadly referred to as herpes stromal keratitis (hsk), can lead to blindness; thus, hsv-1 is the leading cause of corneal blindness due to an infectious agent in developed countries [21], [23], [24]. |
| PubMedID- 24167660 | Hsv can also reach the eyes causing keratitis, which may lead to blindness (13). |
| PubMedID- 20104254 | Hsv-1-induced cs, also broadly referred to as herpes stromal keratitis, can lead to blindness, and hsv-1 is the leading cause of corneal blindness from an infectious agent in developed countries [28,30,31]. |
| PubMedID- 20375330 | Purpose: vaccinia virus keratitis leading to blindness is a severe complication of smallpox vaccination. |
| PubMedID- 21461262 | Acanthamoeba is an opportunistic human pathogen and can cause a rare form of granulomatous encephalitis which almost always results in death or a common keratitis with consequences of blindness [2-4]. |
| PubMedID- 24274145 | Dog positive for o. lupi had conjunctival swelling and a purulent mucus discharge (c), or blindness with severe keratitis and uveitis (d). |
| PubMedID- 24302819 | Corneal blindness due to infectious keratitis has been more commonly reported in the rural population, particularly in those belonging to the lower socioeconomic strata and those who are illiterate with poor knowledge about proper eye care. |
| PubMedID- 25793095 | Herpes simplex virus (hsv) is responsible for a variety of serious diseases such as infection of cornea (keratitis) leading to corneal blindness and perilous infection of central nervous system such as encephalitis, which is the most common form of sporadic viral encephalitis in western countries (1, 2). |
| PubMedID- 23943467 | Replication in corneal epithelial cells results in corneal scarring and can lead to herpes stromal keratitis, a leading cause of blindness in the united states (kaye and choudhary 2006). |
| PubMedID- 23703462 | Infectious keratitis can lead to blindness without proper antimicrobial therapy. |
| PubMedID- 24068938 | Periodically, reactivation from latency occurs and is associated with numerous diseases, ranging from the common cold sore to ocular herpetic stromal keratitis, a leading cause of infectious blindness [3][4]. |
| PubMedID- 24019777 | In the eye, hsv-i may cause a chronic immunoinflammatory process with secondary corneal neoangiogenesis called stromal keratitis, potentially leading to blindness [8]. |
| PubMedID- 24501460 | [391012] of the post-radiation patients that have come for regular follow-up, we had 17 patients with radiation keratitis leading to blindness [figure 5]. |
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