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Corneal perforation in a premature infant at the corrected gestational age of 32 weeks Toshiaki Kubota 1 , Yayoi Suyama 1 , Junko Wakiya 1 , Naoko Onizuka 1 , Mikihiro Aoki 2 , Koji Matsuo 2 , Muneyoshi Yoshinaga 2 1Dept of Ophthalmol,National Nagasaki Med Center 2Dept of Pediatrics,National Nagasaki Med Center pp.171-173
Published Date 2004/2/15
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1410101034
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 A male infant was referred to our neonatal intensive care unit(NICU)on the day of birth. He had been born after gestation for 27 weeks with the birthweight of 982g. He was diagnosed with extremely low birthweight infant,extremely immature infant,respiratory distress syndrome,asphyxia,and suspected septicemia. Systemic antibiotics was started on day 17 of birth for elevated CRP value. The left eye developed corneal opacity with discharge on day 23. Corneal ulcer and iris hemorrhage appeared 3 days later. Pseudomonas and Candia were isolated from tracheal exudate. Instillation of vancomycin was started. Another 4 days later,corneal perforation developed with iris prolapse. The defective cornea was covered by conjunctival flap with success. The right eye had retinopathy of prematurity with intact anterior segment throughout. This case illustrates that corneal perforation in premature infant may be caused by corneal infection. Such an instance is extremely rare and,to our best knowledge,only nine cases have been reported in world literature.


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