Cloudy Cornea in Neonates
Possible Causes
- Trauma
- Forceps
- Chemical injury
- Needle perforation with amnioscentesis
- Infections (corneal ulceration possible)
- Herpes Simplex
- Rubella
- Nisseria gonorrhoeae
- Glaucoma (increased IOP)
- Metabolic
- Mucopolysaccharidoses-MPS-IH (Hurlers)
- Mucolipodoses-type IV
- Glycogen Storage Disease type I (Von Gierke),
- Cystinosis
- Tyrosinemia (type II)
- Dysgenesis
- Peters anomaly
- Dermoid (choristoma)
- Sclerocornea
- Corneal dystrophy
- PPMD
- CHED
- CHSD
- Skin disease
- ichthyosis
- dayskeratoses
- Keratomalacia (Vitamin A deficiency)