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Research Article: A New Treatment for Recalcitrant Neurotrophic Keratopathy of Ocular Graft-Versus-Host Disease with Virus Infection

Date Published: 2023-12-06

Abstract:
Neurotrophic keratopathy (NK) is a rare degenerative ocular disease that can be difficult to treat. There were no effective resolutive treatments for severe NK caused by ocular graft-versus-host disease (oGVHD) along with virus infection. To address this question, we designed a prospective cohort study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of topical recombinant human nerve growth factor (rhNGF) in patients with recalcitrant NK of oGVHD and viral infection.

Introduction:
Neurotrophic keratopathy (NK), also known as neurotrophic keratitis, is a rare degenerative ocular disease. When the trigeminal innervation of the cornea is damaged, morphological and metabolic epithelial abnormalities progress, leading to NK [1, 2]. Severe NK may cause corneal thinning, scarring, neovascularization, or even corneal melting and perforation with irreversible visual loss [1, 3]. Various conditions, such as ocular herpetic infection, ocular or neurologic surgery, trauma, diabetes, and dry eye disease…

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