interstitial keratitis

Interstitial keratitis - this commonly appears between ages 6 and 12.

Inflammation of the cornea, which may cause blindness (interstitial keratitis).

"If, for example, I were to say that you have interstitial keratitis, how would you be the wiser?

The most common late manifestation is interstitial keratitis in which the cornea of the eye gradually clouds over, rather like a cataract.

They serve as part of Hutchinson's triad, which also includes interstitial keratitis and eighth nerve deafness.

Interstitial keratitis.

Rare manifestations include hepatitis, kidney disease, arthritis, periostitis, optic neuritis, uveitis, and interstitial keratitis.

In 1945, the ophthalmologist David Glendenning Cogan (1908-1993) first described the "nonsyphilitic interstitial keratitis and vestibuloauditory symptoms" that would later bear his name.

It is a common pattern of presentation for congenital syphilis, and consists of three phenomena: interstitial keratitis, Hutchinson incisors, and eighth nerve deafness.

In addition to Adamantiades-Behçet's disease, Adamantiades described the interstitial keratitis in trachomatic patients to be a bacterial infection and classified the epidemic idiopathic hemeralopia.

He was the first to describe his triad of medical signs for congenital syphilis: notched incisor teeth, labyrinthine deafness and interstitial keratitis, which was very useful for providing a firm diagnosis long before the Treponema pallidum or the Wassermann test were discovered.

Hutchinson's triad, a set of symptoms consisting of deafness, Hutchinson's teeth (centrally notched, widely-spaced peg-shaped upper central incisors), and interstitial keratitis (IK), an inflammation of the cornea which can lead to corneal scarring and potentially blindness.