ABSTRACT
To study the role of the HHV-6 type in the development of eye diseases PCR tests of blood (152), cornea biopsies (61), and intraocular fluids (11) for HHV-6 and other viruses of the herpes group (HSV type 1 and 2, CMV, EBV) were conducted. It was found that the HHV-6, along with other representatives of the Herpesviridae, can be detected in patients with different clinical forms of ophthalmopathology (174 patients were surveyed). Viral DNA was detected in blood, cornea, and in the anterior chamber fluid. The obtained data allow that the HHV-6 to be suggested as a possible cause of the ophthalmic herpes along with the other viruses of this group. It makes finding the virus DNA an essential step towards setting the etiologic diagnosis of the ophthalmological patients.
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DNA, Viral/genetics , Eye Diseases/diagnosis , Herpesviridae Infections/diagnosis , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Anterior Chamber/pathology , Anterior Chamber/virology , Aqueous Humor/virology , Child , Child, Preschool , Cornea/pathology , Cornea/virology , Cytomegalovirus/genetics , Cytomegalovirus/isolation & purification , Eye Diseases/pathology , Eye Diseases/virology , Female , Herpesviridae Infections/pathology , Herpesviridae Infections/virology , Herpesvirus 1, Human/genetics , Herpesvirus 1, Human/isolation & purification , Herpesvirus 2, Human/genetics , Herpesvirus 2, Human/isolation & purification , Herpesvirus 4, Human/genetics , Herpesvirus 4, Human/isolation & purification , Herpesvirus 6, Human/genetics , Herpesvirus 6, Human/isolation & purification , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Polymerase Chain ReactionABSTRACT
Sometimes an urgent lamellar keratoplasty remains the only treatment option for corneal defect closure. When fresh donor tissue is absent as it is regular in recent years dried cornea transplantation becomes reasonable. In recent years in ocular trauma department 320 transplantations of dried on silicagel cornea were performed. Analysis of results allows to conclude that use of dried cornea is a promising surgical procedure to preserve the globe and in some cases to prepare the eye with severe trauma for subsequent optic surgery.