Case 4: A Case of a Caring Wife 23

Case 4: A Case of a Caring Wife

Case Report

This 87-year-old woman, who had administered eye drops to her husband with nosocomial infection, presented with bilateral keratoconjunctivitis 4 days after symptom onset. She developed many subepithelial opacities/infiltrates still present 2 years later.

The photographs of the left cornea were taken 17 days after symptom onset.

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Fig. 2.11  (a–d) A heavy disturbance of the epithelial architecture highlighted with fluorescein. (a, b) show surface elevations (dark; bowed arrow and arrowheads) and brilliantly green dots (straight arrows). In (c, d) are visible green dots (arrows) and rounded/abnormal cells (arrowheads)