Table 1.
Patients with infectious keratitis requiring additional intervention in relation to corneal culture outcome
| Total | AMT only | CXL only | CT only | Evisc/Enuc only | AMT + CXL | AMT + CT | CT + CXL | CXL + Evisc/Enuc | AMT + CXL + Evisc/Enuc | AMT + CT + CXL | CT + CXL + Evisc/Enuc | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culture positive (n = 278) | 84 | 22 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Culture negative (n = 113) | 20 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Total* (n = 391) | 104 | 31 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
AMT = amniotic membrane transplant; CT = corneal transplant; CXL = corneal cross‐linking; Evisc./Enuc. = Evisceration/Enucleation.
* For one patient with positive corneal culture, it is unknown whether an additional intervention was performed or not. Six patients that at the study period was involved in another study (Makdoumi et al. 2012) regarding CXL as primary treatment of bacterial keratitis are excluded from these calculations.