Monday, December 17, 2012

USING STEROIDS IN BACTERIAL CORNEAL ULCERS

This study in Ophthalmic Epidemiology concludes that the adjunctive use of topical steroids in bacterial corneal ulcers improves visual outcome.  Personally I wait until the ulcer is mostly healed before considering the use of topical steroids to minimize scarring.

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