Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
GA Vidhyashree, L Suresh, BN Nagaraja, KM Srinivasa Murthy, PT Ramesh and NM Rajashailesha

Abstract:
The present study was conducted on 6 clinical cases of dogs irrespective of age, sex and breed which were having corneal ulcer to evaluate the efficacy of surgical procedure. Dogs presented with corneal ulcer were confirmed by clinical examination, direct ophthalmoscopy, fluorescein dye test and then subjected to human amniotic membrane transplantation. All the dogs were subjected to topical moxifloxacin eye drops and flurbiprofen eyedrops prior and post-surgery at the rate of two drops four times daily for a period of 2 weeks and 5 days respectively. Healing of the ulcer were studied based on vision function tests, schirmer tear test, gross appearance of the cornea, corneal clarity before and 7th, 14th and 28th post-operative days. Negative fluorescein staining was seen on 7th post-operative day in most of cases suggests that the corneal epithelialization was rapid and was complete by 7th post AMT and corneal transparency was regained by 28th postoperative day in most of the cases.