Ocular dirofilariasis in Dubai, UAE

A rare occurrence of ocular subconjunctival dirofilariasis in a 53-year-old healthy Indian male working in Dubai, UAE presenting with an acute red eye is reported. Surgical excision under topical anesthesia was carried out uneventfully in the outpatient clinic. The live worm removed from the subconj...

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Autores principales: Mittal, Mamta, Sathish, K R, Bhatia, Prashant G, Chidamber, B S
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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/PMC2636165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18579995
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author Mittal, Mamta
Sathish, K R
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description A rare occurrence of ocular subconjunctival dirofilariasis in a 53-year-old healthy Indian male working in Dubai, UAE presenting with an acute red eye is reported. Surgical excision under topical anesthesia was carried out uneventfully in the outpatient clinic. The live worm removed from the subconjunctival space was identified as Dirofilaria repens on the basis of microscopic examination and histopathology. Surgical excision of subconjunctival dirofilariasis is safe in an outpatient setting and curative precluding the need for further systemic antihelminthics.
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spelling pubmed-26361652009-02-10 Ocular dirofilariasis in Dubai, UAE Mittal, Mamta Sathish, K R Bhatia, Prashant G Chidamber, B S Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communication A rare occurrence of ocular subconjunctival dirofilariasis in a 53-year-old healthy Indian male working in Dubai, UAE presenting with an acute red eye is reported. Surgical excision under topical anesthesia was carried out uneventfully in the outpatient clinic. The live worm removed from the subconjunctival space was identified as Dirofilaria repens on the basis of microscopic examination and histopathology. Surgical excision of subconjunctival dirofilariasis is safe in an outpatient setting and curative precluding the need for further systemic antihelminthics. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2636165/ /pubmed/18579995 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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Mittal, Mamta
Sathish, K R
Bhatia, Prashant G
Chidamber, B S
Ocular dirofilariasis in Dubai, UAE
title Ocular dirofilariasis in Dubai, UAE
title_full Ocular dirofilariasis in Dubai, UAE
title_fullStr Ocular dirofilariasis in Dubai, UAE
title_full_unstemmed Ocular dirofilariasis in Dubai, UAE
title_short Ocular dirofilariasis in Dubai, UAE
title_sort ocular dirofilariasis in dubai, uae
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18579995
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