Bilateral retinitis following Chikun- gunya fever

A 35-year-old male with a history of chikungunya fever, presented with diminution of vision in the right eye of one-week duration. His best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was counting fingers 2 meters and 20/20 (Snellens) in the right and left eyes respectively. A diagnosis of neuroretinitis was mad...

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Autores principales: Murthy, Krishna R, Venkataraman, Nandita, Satish, Vidya, Babu, Kalpana
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18579997
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author Murthy, Krishna R
Venkataraman, Nandita
Satish, Vidya
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description A 35-year-old male with a history of chikungunya fever, presented with diminution of vision in the right eye of one-week duration. His best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was counting fingers 2 meters and 20/20 (Snellens) in the right and left eyes respectively. A diagnosis of neuroretinitis was made in the right eye while left eye showed features of retinitis. ELISA (serum) and polymerase chain reaction (aqueous) were positive for herpes simplex virus. The lesions did not show any response to antiviral or steroid treatment and appeared to be self-limiting. At five months follow-up, lesions had resolved well with BCVA of 20/120 and 20/20 in the right and left eyes respectively.
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spelling pubmed-26361552009-02-10 Bilateral retinitis following Chikun- gunya fever Murthy, Krishna R Venkataraman, Nandita Satish, Vidya Babu, Kalpana Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communication A 35-year-old male with a history of chikungunya fever, presented with diminution of vision in the right eye of one-week duration. His best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was counting fingers 2 meters and 20/20 (Snellens) in the right and left eyes respectively. A diagnosis of neuroretinitis was made in the right eye while left eye showed features of retinitis. ELISA (serum) and polymerase chain reaction (aqueous) were positive for herpes simplex virus. The lesions did not show any response to antiviral or steroid treatment and appeared to be self-limiting. At five months follow-up, lesions had resolved well with BCVA of 20/120 and 20/20 in the right and left eyes respectively. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2636155/ /pubmed/18579997 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Murthy, Krishna R
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Bilateral retinitis following Chikun- gunya fever
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title_full Bilateral retinitis following Chikun- gunya fever
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title_short Bilateral retinitis following Chikun- gunya fever
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18579997
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