Hidradenitis suppurativa and bilateral interstitial keratitis: A case report

Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory disease that cause painful abscess and nodules in skin that contain apocrine glands. While HS has known associations with several inflammatory disorders, a rare association is interstitial keratitis. We present a case of bilateral interstitial keratitis attributed to a severe flare of HS disease resulting in systemic inflammation. Other case reports have established that bilateral interstitial keratitis can be attributed to HS, as well as other eye symptoms and diseases. Despite the rarity of keratitis in patients with HS, clinicians should be aware that this association does exist when their HS patient presents with severe or atypical eye symptoms.