Publications by authors named "Fabiana Bogossian Marangon"
Purpose: To document etiology and predictive value of clinical diagnosis in laboratory confirmed viral diseases.
Methods: Reports of culture-positive cases of samples collected from patients presenting from January 1987 - December 2001 were evaluated.
Results: One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four (1964) cultures were submitted during 1987-2001.
Purpose: To describe the causes, clinical characteristics, and treatment of wound dehiscence in patients after penetrating keratoplasty (PK).
Methods: A retrospective chart review was completed, evaluating patients seen at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute between 1989 and 2001.
Results: All dehiscence occurred at the graft-host junction with an average of 5 hours of dehiscence, but no site preference was identified.
Objective: To report the incidence and characteristics of microbial infection following amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT).
Methods: We retrieved the clinical and microbiological records of a total of 326 patients undergoing AMT from January 1994 to February 2001 at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute to determine the incidence and characteristics of post-AMT infections with respect to the interval between AMT and the time of microbial culturing, types of organisms, and clinical outcomes and to correlate these infections with the microbiologic results of AM storage media submitted immediately after AMT and the underlying ocular diagnosis.
Results: We subdivided these 326 patients into two groups: 76 patients (from January 1994 to June 1998) used AM prepared from a research laboratory and did not submit AM storage media for culture under an Institutional Review Board-approved protocol, and 250 patients thereafter used AM obtained from a commercial source and routinely submitted AM storage media for culture.
Objective: To document the impact of prior antibiotic therapy on the recovery of corneal pathogens.
Methods: Medical records and laboratory reports of 334 consecutive microbial keratitis patients examined from January to December 2000 were reviewed. Comparisons of pathogens, culture positive rate, recovery time, antibiotic sensitivity profile, delay in presentation, and final visual acuity were analyzed for patients treated before presentation and those who were not.