Deliège, Pierre-Guillaume Bastien, Justine Mokri, Laetitia Guyot-Colosio, Charlotte Arndt, Carl Rieu, Philippe
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BMC Ophthalmology
BackgroundTo report the first case of belatacept-associated multidrug-resistant Cytomegalovirus retinitis in a kidney transplant recipient.Case presentationA 76-year-old African male renal allograft recipient was admitted for acute visual loss of the right eye. Ophthalmological examination of the right eye showed anterior uveitis and vitritis assoc...
Murray, Jillian Hilbig, Adelene Soe, Theint Thida Ei, Win Le Shwe Sin Soe, Kyi Pyar Ciglenecki, Iza
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundCytomegalovirus retinitis (CMVR) is an opportunistic infection in HIV-infected people. Intraocular or intravenous ganciclovir was gold standard for treatment; however, oral valganciclovir replaced this in high-income countries. Low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) frequently use intraocular injection of ganciclovir (IOG) alone because ...
Rosa, Paulo Alberto Cervi Nakayama, Luis Filipe Bergamo, Vinicius Campos Kuroiwa, Dante Akira Kondo de Moraes, Nilva Simeren Bueno
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International Journal of Retina and Vitreous
BackgroundCat scratch disease is a systemic infectious illness caused by the bacterium Bartonella henselae. The most common ophthalmological involvement due to infection by Bartonella is Parinaud oculoglandular syndrome, whereas the most common posterior segment findings are neuroretinitis and subsequent late macular star. Moreover, other findings,...
Devilliers, M-J Ben Hadj Salah, W Barreau, E Da Cunha, E M'Garrech, M Bénichou, J Labetoulle, M Rousseau, A
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La Revue de medecine interne
Viral infections may involve all ocular tissues and may have short and long-term sight-threatening consequences. Among them, ocular infections caused by herpesviruses are the most frequent. HSV-1 keratitis and kerato-uveitis affect approximately are the leading cause of infectious blindness in the Western world, mainly because of corneal opacificat...
Orellana-Rios, Jorge Verdaguer-Diaz, Juan I. Opazo, Gabriela Leong, Belinda C.S. Zett, Claudio Smith, R. Theodore Freund, K. Bailey
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IDCases
To describe the ocurrence of Bartonella -associated neuroretinitis secondary to non-feline pet exposure, we retrospectively reviewed medical records and imaging from patients with a clinical and serologic diagnosis of Bartonella henselae (BH). Retinal imaging included color fundus photography, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fluorescein angi...
Martínez-Rubio, Clara Giralt, Lena Lacambra, Inazio Artaraz, Joseba Fonollosa, Alex
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Case Reports in Ophthalmology
Our aim is to describe clinical and optical coherence tomographic features of acute paraneoplastic focal outer retinitis associated with optic neuropathy in a patient diagnosed with small cell lung carcinoma. Bilateral focal outer retinitis, bilateral optic disc oedema and vitritis were identified in a patient with progressive bilateral visual loss...
Eloubeidi, Dala M Kilpatrick, David L Crosson, Jason N
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American journal of ophthalmology case reports
To summarize the case of a 13 year-old boy diagnosed with a BRAO secondary to B. henselae infection. The patient presented with a sudden, unilateral, and painless scotoma. Fundoscopic findings and multimodal imaging were consistent with a BRAO with associated areas of intraretinal whitening along the involved artery. Upon further questioning, the p...
Scoles, Drew Ammar, Michael J. Carroll, Robert M. Orlin, Stephen E. Addis, Victoria Maguire, Albert M.
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American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports
Purpose To report a case of an immunocompetent patient who developed cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis after complicated cataract surgery resulting in aphakia. Observations A 67-year-old man with type 2 diabetes developed retinitis six months after cataract surgery that resulted in aphakia. Anterior chamber DNA testing was positive for CMV. Comprehen...
Ito, Shin-ichiro Takagi, Seiji Takahashi, Masayo Sugita, Sunao Hirami, Yasuhiko Fujihara, Masashi Uzu, Towa Azumi, Atsushi Kurimoto, Yasuo
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American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports
Purpose To report 2 years’ longitudinal retinal changes using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) images in a case of retinitis after influenza virus infection. Observations A 48-year-old female complained of scotoma in the central visual field after influenza virus infection. Her best visual acuity was 20/16, her fundus examinati...
Mazzeo, Thiago José Muniz Machado dos Santos Motta, Mario Martins Curi, André Luiz Land
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Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection
Diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis (DUSN) is an ocular infectious disease that can lead to severe visual impairment and blindness. It usually occurs in healthy young individuals and depending on the stage of the disease, it may present as vitritis, multifocal gray-white lesions in the outer retina, and derangement of the retinal pigment epi...
