[Epicorneal coatings with kerakol in the combined treatment of keratitis]

The paper analyses effectiveness of treatment of keratitis with cornea ulceration in 114 patients with and without epicorneal covering by keracol. The preparation is a dehydrated and powdered cattle cornea. It easily hydrates by the own corneal fluid to a jelly-like consistency in its epicorneal application. It is shown that epicorneal medicinal covering by keracol allows to have a necessary keratoplastic effect in diseases of the cornea accompanied by its ulceration. Microsurgical interventions, such as scarification of epithelium, dosed local keratectomy of superficial pathologically changed portions of the cornea with subsequent epicorneal covering by keracol, allowed to arrest the pathologic process within 3-10 days in 85% of patients; in the control group--the same results were achieved in 68.4% of cases.