Evaluation of the role of ProKera in the management of ocular surface and orbital disorders.

Objectives: To report the efficacy and safety profile of sutureless and adhesiveless amniotic membrane device (ProKera, Bio-Tissue, Inc., Miami, FL) in the management of various ocular surface and orbital disorders.

Methods: Twenty eyes of 20 patients underwent placement of 21 ProKera implants between March 2006 and July 2007 at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Microbial keratitis pathogens and antibiotic susceptibilities: a 5-year review of cases at an urban county hospital in north Texas.

Purpose: To review the epidemiology, risk factors, microbiologic spectrum, and outcomes of microbial keratitis and to compare cases in which a causative organism is identified to those determined to be sterile during a 5-year period at a large county hospital in north Texas.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of cases of microbial keratitis at Parkland Memorial Hospital between January 2000 and December 2004.

Results: During this 5-year period, 132 eyes of 131 patients underwent 139 corneal scrapings for presumed microbial keratitis and an organism was reported in 73 (52.