Napaporn Tananuvat

Napaporn Tananuvat


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Academic Career Length

6Years (2021-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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30 June 2021 in Journal of Fungi
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CTChulaluck Tangmonkongvoragul
Chulaluck Tangmonkongvoragul
SCSusama Chokesuwattanaskul
Susama Chokesuwattanaskul
NTNapaporn Tananuvat
Napaporn Tananuvat
Monsicha PongpomMonsicha Pongpom
Monsicha Pongpom
PUPhit Upaphong
Phit Upaphong
SCSiriporn Chongkae
Siriporn Chongkae
Dematiaceous fungal keratitis is an important etiology of visual loss, particularly in an agricultural society. From a retrospective review of medical records from 2012 to 2020, 50 keratitis cases of cultured-positive for dematiaceous fungi were presented at a tertiary care hospital in Northern Thailand. The study aimed to identify the isolated causative dematiaceous species using the PCR technique and to explore their related clinical features, including treatment prognoses. Sequencing of the amplified D1/D2 domains and/or ITS region were applied and sequenced. Of the 50 dematiaceous fungal keratitis cases, 41 patients were males (82%). In most cases, the onset happened during the monsoon season (June to September) (48%). The majority of the patients (72%) had a history of ocular trauma from an organic foreign body. The most common species identified were Lasiodiplodia spp. (19.35%), followed by Cladosporium spp. and Curvularia spp. (12.90% each). About half of the patients (52%) were in the medical failure group where surgical intervention was required. In summary, ocular trauma from an organic foreign body was the major risk factor of dematiaceous fungal keratitis in Northern Thailand. The brown pigmentation could be observed in only 26%. Significant prognostic factors for medical failure were visual acuity at presentation, area of infiltrate, depth of the lesions, and hypopyon.