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Query: UMLS:C0022568 (
keratitis
)
5,133
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
The nonophthalmic physician confronted by a patient with a red eye should be able to distinguish common microbial or allergic conjunctivitis from potentially blinding disorders, such as acute angle closure glaucoma, uveitis, or herpes simplex
keratitis
, and should remain alert for an associated systemic disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis,
polycythemia
, or carotid cavernous fistula. The physician should approach the red eye systematically: take a careful history, including type of pain; measure visual acuity; observe the pattern of redness, the type of discharge, the shape of the pupil, and the opacities of the media; and measure the intraocular pressure.
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PMID:The red eye. 30 93
