Ophthalmoparesis, papillitis and premacular hemorrhage in a case with endocarditis: A rare presentation of brucellosis

We report a rare presentation of brucellosis as bilateral optic nerve and right abducent nerve involvement, and endocarditis complicated by right premacular hemorrhage in a 28-year-old white female. The patient showed improvement with both medical and surgical therapy. Brucellosis should be consider...

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Autores principales: Sahin, Özlem Gürses, Pelit, Aysel, Turunc, Tuğba, Akova, Yonca Aydin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20195047
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.60098
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author Sahin, Özlem Gürses
Pelit, Aysel
Turunc, Tuğba
Akova, Yonca Aydin
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description We report a rare presentation of brucellosis as bilateral optic nerve and right abducent nerve involvement, and endocarditis complicated by right premacular hemorrhage in a 28-year-old white female. The patient showed improvement with both medical and surgical therapy. Brucellosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of papillitis, gaze palsy and endocarditis complicated with premacular hemorrhage in endemic regions.
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spelling pubmed-28544552010-04-16 Ophthalmoparesis, papillitis and premacular hemorrhage in a case with endocarditis: A rare presentation of brucellosis Sahin, Özlem Gürses Pelit, Aysel Turunc, Tuğba Akova, Yonca Aydin Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communication We report a rare presentation of brucellosis as bilateral optic nerve and right abducent nerve involvement, and endocarditis complicated by right premacular hemorrhage in a 28-year-old white female. The patient showed improvement with both medical and surgical therapy. Brucellosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of papillitis, gaze palsy and endocarditis complicated with premacular hemorrhage in endemic regions. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2854455/ /pubmed/20195047 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.60098 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communication
Sahin, Özlem Gürses
Pelit, Aysel
Turunc, Tuğba
Akova, Yonca Aydin
Ophthalmoparesis, papillitis and premacular hemorrhage in a case with endocarditis: A rare presentation of brucellosis
title Ophthalmoparesis, papillitis and premacular hemorrhage in a case with endocarditis: A rare presentation of brucellosis
title_full Ophthalmoparesis, papillitis and premacular hemorrhage in a case with endocarditis: A rare presentation of brucellosis
title_fullStr Ophthalmoparesis, papillitis and premacular hemorrhage in a case with endocarditis: A rare presentation of brucellosis
title_full_unstemmed Ophthalmoparesis, papillitis and premacular hemorrhage in a case with endocarditis: A rare presentation of brucellosis
title_short Ophthalmoparesis, papillitis and premacular hemorrhage in a case with endocarditis: A rare presentation of brucellosis
title_sort ophthalmoparesis, papillitis and premacular hemorrhage in a case with endocarditis: a rare presentation of brucellosis
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20195047
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.60098
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