Contact lens-related microbial keratitis.

Objective: To review the clinical and microbiological profile in patients with contact lens-related microbial keratitis (CLRMK).

Material And Method: Hospital records of 435 patients with a diagnosis of microbial keratitis seen at Ramathibodi Hospital from January 1998 to December 2002 were retrospectively reviewed. All patients with CLRMK were included in the present study.

Ocular pythiosis: is it under-diagnosed?

Purpose: To increase awareness of ocular pythiosis by presenting a typical case and summarizing clinical data of 11 ocular pythiosis cases in Ramathibodi Hospital.

Design: Interventional case report.

Methods: A 48-year-old healthy woman with a history of 3-week painful corneal ulcer of left eye was treated with enucleation.

Pythium corneal ulcer in Ramathibodi Hospital.

This is a retrospective study of corneal ulcers caused by Pythium insidiosum in Ramathibodi Hospital from 1988 to 1998. The clinical data was from the medical records of 10 patients, of which 8 had complete information. Mean age of the patients was 49.