[A case of bacterial keratitis after lamellar keratoplasty for pterygium].

ABSTRACT

A 48-year-old man presented to Beijing Tongren Hospital Ophthalmology Department with redness, increased secretions and vision loss in his right eye. He had been treated with pterygium excision and lamellar keratoplasty due to recurrent pterygium in the right eye. After corneal scraping and microbial culture, he was diagnosed as bacterial keratitis after pterygium lamellar keratoplasty in the right eye. After applying topical antibiotic eye drops, removing corneal graft and conducting amniotic membrane transplantation, corneal infection was controlled and his vision was recovered.