Acanthamoeba keratitis. Potential role for topical clotrimazole in combination chemotherapy. 1988

W T Driebe, and G A Stern, and R J Epstein, and G S Visvesvara, and M Adi, and T Komadina
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610-0284.

Clotrimazole is an antifungal agent that has been shown to have excellent in vitro activity against most strains of Acanthamoeba. We encountered four patients who developed Acanthamoeba keratitis while wearing contact lenses that had been stored in homemade saline. Their medical treatment regimens included the use of topical 1% clotrimazole. In two patients in whom conventional therapy failed, clotrimazole was successful in controlling recurrent infection following penetrating keratoplasty. Two other patients were treated with clotrimazole as well as propamidine isethionate and neomycin sulfate-polymyxin B sulfate-gramicidin from the outset, and had an excellent response to medical therapy. In those patients who found the commercially available cream uncomfortable, a 1% clotrimazole suspension formulated in artificial tears was used and found to be well tolerated.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007093 Imidazoles Compounds containing 1,3-diazole, a five membered aromatic ring containing two nitrogen atoms separated by one of the carbons. Chemically reduced ones include IMIDAZOLINES and IMIDAZOLIDINES. Distinguish from 1,2-diazole (PYRAZOLES).
D007634 Keratitis Inflammation of the cornea. Keratitides
D008297 Male Males
D011247 Pregnancy The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH. Gestation,Pregnancies
D003022 Clotrimazole An imidazole derivative with a broad spectrum of antimycotic activity. It inhibits biosynthesis of the sterol ergostol, an important component of fungal CELL MEMBRANES. Its action leads to increased membrane permeability and apparent disruption of enzyme systems bound to the membrane. Bay b 5097,Canesten,FB b 5097,Kanesten,Klotrimazole,Lotrimin,Mycelex
D003261 Contact Lenses Lenses designed to be worn on the front surface of the eyeball. (UMDNS, 1999) Lenses, Contact,Contact Lens,Lens, Contact
D004359 Drug Therapy, Combination Therapy with two or more separate preparations given for a combined effect. Combination Chemotherapy,Polychemotherapy,Chemotherapy, Combination,Combination Drug Therapy,Drug Polytherapy,Therapy, Combination Drug,Chemotherapies, Combination,Combination Chemotherapies,Combination Drug Therapies,Drug Polytherapies,Drug Therapies, Combination,Polychemotherapies,Polytherapies, Drug,Polytherapy, Drug,Therapies, Combination Drug
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000048 Acanthamoeba A genus of free-living soil amoebae that produces no flagellate stage. Its organisms are pathogens for several infections in humans and have been found in the eye, bone, brain, and respiratory tract. Acanthamoebas

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