Table 5.

Treatment strategies, pattern and outcomes of Leishmanial keratitis

Reference	n	Vision at first presentation	Leishmanial pattern	Corneal involvement	Treatment	Outcome
Chams[53]	18	NA	CL	Ulcerative keratitis	Systemic arsenic based compounds and topical methylene blue	0.6-1.3 if treated during the first week 0.8-1.6 if treated during the between the second and fourth weeks 50% corneal perforations if treated after the fourth week
Van Os et al.[49]	1	OD: 0.3 OS: 0.2	DCL	Superficial punctate keratitis and stromal infiltrate	Intracameral and intra-stromal amphotericin B, systemic antimonial and pentamidine	OD: 0.7 OS: 0.2 (note: the patient eventually underwent bilateral evisceration some time after publication of the article)
Roizenblatt[54]	1	Finger counting bilaterally	MCL	IK	Amphotericin B	Improvement
Cairns[61]	1	1.1 bilaterally	CL	IK	10% mepacrine infiltration topical steroids innefective	Full resolution
De Andrade[60]	NA		MCL	IK or ulcerative keratitis	Potassium tartrate or systemic antimonials	Variable
Napier et al.[55]	1	OD: 1.3 OS: counting fingers	PKDL	Pannus and IK	Urea stibamine	OD: 0.8 OS: 1.5

n=Number of patients; NA=Not available; IK=Interstitial keratitis