Treatment of Herpes Simplex Keratitis with IDU and Cryocautery.

Song, Do Joon; Kwon, Yong Ho; Kim, Hyung Jeon

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1967;8(3):27-29.

Treatment of Herpes Simplex Keratitis with IDU and Cryocautery.

Do Joon Song, Yong Ho Kwon, Hyung Jeon Kim

Department of Ophthalmology, National Medical Center, Korea.

Herpes Simplex Keratitis 와 ( IDU ) 와 냉동요법 (冷凍療法)

김형전(Hyung Jeon Kim),송도준(Do Joon Song),권영호(Young Ho Kwon)

Abstract

The effect of IDU and cryocautery in the treatment of Herpes Simplex Keratitis was presented. The cryoapplicator was a model of Krwawlcz probe (2 mm in diameter) which was refrigerated in a mixture of dry ice and methyl alcohol. The applicator was appJied on the lesions 7 seconds each and antibiotics and atropine solutions were instilled. A good result was experienced in the treatment of several cases of dendritic kenititis by freezing the corneal lesions by means of cryoappJicator, which had not been responded to IDU therapy speedy. The deep neovascularization of the cornea in a case of stromal keratitis was disappeared after cryocautery for the treatment of the superficial corneal ulcers.