Practice Management
A 29-year-old contact lens wearer presents to the urgent care center with a red eye, eye pain, and visual loss that has been increasing over the past 12 hours. Examination shows an injected conjunctiva with ciliary flush, and a cornea with white infiltrate in the stroma. View the image taken (Figure 1) and consider what your diagnosis would be.
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A 30-year-old woman presents with a red eye, associated with eye pain, light sensitivity, and slightly decreased vision, which started 4 days earlier. She was previously treated with tobramycin, but she has not noticed any change in the condition of her eye. Examination shows an injected conjunctiva and a hypopyon. On further examination with a slit lamp, inflammatory cells are evident in the anterior chamber. View the image taken (Figure 1) and consider what your …
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A 35-year-old woman presents with a history of 1 day of pain in her right eye, photophobia, and decreased vision. There is no history of trauma. One day earlier, she was seen at an urgent care center, where the diagnosis was a corneal abrasion, and she was treated with topical trimethoprim-polymyxin. Her symptoms have worsened, so she has returned for further evaluation. View the image taken (Figure 1) and consider what your diagnosis would be.
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