How is corneal dendritic change caused?

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Corneal dendritic changes are the symptoms and signs of dendritic keratitis. The initial infection is usually a self limiting conjunctivitis without characteristics, which may be accompanied by blepharitis. It may be accompanied by blepharitis. The early symptoms were foreign body sensation, tears, photophobia and conjunctival congestion. With repeated recurrence, corneal perception decreased or disappeared, which may cause corneal ulcer and permanent corneal scar formation. Discoid keratitis involves the corneal stroma, is the deep corneal discoid limited edema and opacity, accompanied by iritis, often occurs after epithelial keratitis. So, how to diagnose corneal dendritic changes?

How is corneal dendritic change caused?

1. Pseudodendritic keratitis: dendritic keratitis accompanied by herpes zoster, because of its morphology and HSV dendritic keratitis is very similar, the main difference is: the corneal lesions are mild, slightly higher from the corneal surface, light, moderate fluorescein staining. The end of the dendritic lesion is not spherical like HSK.

2. It is not difficult to diagnose corneal dendritic changes when there are specific signs of skin, eyes and cornea. The cases with atypical signs and few rashes are often misdiagnosed as corneal dendritic changes. The authors believe that VZV should be suspected when keratitis or other ocular signs appear and have the following characteristics. 　

3. Corneal dendritic changes, to see the previous history of unilateral facial rash. The residual scar or tan deposit and iris atrophy were found in this area. One of the symptoms is anterior chamber hyperpigmentation. We should keep this knowledge in mind. Hope everyone can have a healthy body!

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Corneal dendritic changes are the symptoms and signs of dendritic keratitis. The initial infection is usually a self limiting conjunctivitis without characteristics, which may be accompanied by blepharitis. It may be accompanied by blepharitis. The early symptoms were foreign body sensation, tears, photophobia and conjunctival congestion. With repeated recurrence, corneal perception decreased or disappeared.