An atypical presentation of sympathetic ophthalmia following chemical ocular burns

BACKGROUND: Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare disease that can present as bilateral granulomatous uveitis after a penetrating trauma or surgery in one eye. FINDINGS: We report a case of a 47-year-old male with history of decreased vision in the right eye, six months after sustaining severe chemical i...

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Autores principales: Bansal, Pooja, Singh, Maninder, Gupta, Yashi, Gotmare, Nikhil, Thakar, Meenakshi, Arora, Ritu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10188789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37193928
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12348-023-00348-z
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author Bansal, Pooja
Singh, Maninder
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Gotmare, Nikhil
Thakar, Meenakshi
Arora, Ritu
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description BACKGROUND: Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare disease that can present as bilateral granulomatous uveitis after a penetrating trauma or surgery in one eye. FINDINGS: We report a case of a 47-year-old male with history of decreased vision in the right eye, six months after sustaining severe chemical injury in the left eye. He was diagnosed with sympathetic ophthalmia and was treated with corticosteroids and long-term immunosuppressive therapy, leading to complete resolution of intraocular inflammation. Final visual acuity was 20/30 at one year of follow up. CONCLUSIONS: Sympathetic Ophthalmia following chemical ocular burns is extremely uncommon. It can present as a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. It warrants early diagnosis and management.
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spelling pubmed-101887892023-05-18 An atypical presentation of sympathetic ophthalmia following chemical ocular burns Bansal, Pooja Singh, Maninder Gupta, Yashi Gotmare, Nikhil Thakar, Meenakshi Arora, Ritu J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect Brief Report BACKGROUND: Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare disease that can present as bilateral granulomatous uveitis after a penetrating trauma or surgery in one eye. FINDINGS: We report a case of a 47-year-old male with history of decreased vision in the right eye, six months after sustaining severe chemical injury in the left eye. He was diagnosed with sympathetic ophthalmia and was treated with corticosteroids and long-term immunosuppressive therapy, leading to complete resolution of intraocular inflammation. Final visual acuity was 20/30 at one year of follow up. CONCLUSIONS: Sympathetic Ophthalmia following chemical ocular burns is extremely uncommon. It can present as a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. It warrants early diagnosis and management. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10188789/ /pubmed/37193928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12348-023-00348-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Arora, Ritu
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title_short An atypical presentation of sympathetic ophthalmia following chemical ocular burns
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10188789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37193928
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12348-023-00348-z
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