Bacteria commonly isolated from keratitis specimens retain antibiotic susceptibility to fluoroquinolones and gentamicin plus cephalothin.

Purpose: Patients presenting with presumed infective keratitis were studied to determine predisposing factors, the current susceptibilities of the bacterial isolates to a range of relevant antibiotics, the success rate of topical antibiotic treatment of keratitis and predictors of failure of topical therapy.

Methods: Corneal scrapings taken from patients who presented between January 2002 and December 2003 to the Sydney Eye Hospital Emergency Department with keratitis were cultured. The minimum inhibitory concentration of selected antibiotics was determined for each bacterial isolate using an agar dilution technique.

Endoluminal repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm prevents enlargement of the proximal neck: a 9-year life-table and 5-year longitudinal study.

Objective: Endoluminal repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is predicated on stability of the proximal neck of the aneurysm. Reports on morphologic changes in the proximal neck after endoluminal repair of AAA have thus far been limited in duration to 3 years or less. The aim of this study was to document changes in diameter of the proximal neck of AAA in a group of patients who had undergone endoluminal repair between 5 and 9 years previously.