Green thermal laser adjunctive therapy was used to treat resistant infectious keratitis, according to a study.
The retrospective case series included 150 patients over a 4-year period with infectious keratitis at Tanta University Ophthalmology Hospital, Egypt, who had no improvement with antimicrobial treatment alone for 7 days.
Patients received laser photocoagulation with a 500 µm spot size for a duration of 200 milliseconds with power between 900 mW and 1,200 mW. The number of pulses ranged from 28 to 350.
Seventy-one infectious keratitis cases (47.3%) were bacterial and fungal