A CLINICAL STUDY ON NATURAL HISTORY OF VIRAL KERATITIS

Abstract

V. Satya Srinivas 1 , A. P. R. Naidu 2

ABSTRACT: We conducted a prospective case study in patients attending outpatient department of ophthalmology, in Kakinada govt. general Hospital during the period of September 2013 to August 2015. The study was done in 54 eyes of 50 patients in order to evaluate the natural history of Viral keratitis.We came to the conclusion that most of the clinical features are in accordance with the previous studies, and oral acyclovir has some curative and prophylactic properties in few selected cases

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