Retinal vasculitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common systemic diseases in India. Intraocular TB is however, rare. Retinal vasculitis is a relatively rare manifestion of intraocular TB. We report a case of bilateral retinal vasculitis in a 19-year-old girl with abdominal tuberculosis. The patient responded we...

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Autores principales: Kannan, Balaji, Govindarajan, Kummararaj, Kummararaj, Sherin, Balaji, Vijayalakshmi, Natarajapillai, Venugopal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3003856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21217901
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.64232
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author Kannan, Balaji
Govindarajan, Kummararaj
Kummararaj, Sherin
Balaji, Vijayalakshmi
Natarajapillai, Venugopal
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Govindarajan, Kummararaj
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description Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common systemic diseases in India. Intraocular TB is however, rare. Retinal vasculitis is a relatively rare manifestion of intraocular TB. We report a case of bilateral retinal vasculitis in a 19-year-old girl with abdominal tuberculosis. The patient responded well to anti-TB treatment along with a short course of low dose oral steroids. Vision in her right eye however remained compromised due to residual maculopathy. This is the first report of bilateral retinal vasculitis due to colonic TB.
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spelling pubmed-30038562011-01-07 Retinal vasculitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis Kannan, Balaji Govindarajan, Kummararaj Kummararaj, Sherin Balaji, Vijayalakshmi Natarajapillai, Venugopal Oman J Ophthalmol Case Report Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common systemic diseases in India. Intraocular TB is however, rare. Retinal vasculitis is a relatively rare manifestion of intraocular TB. We report a case of bilateral retinal vasculitis in a 19-year-old girl with abdominal tuberculosis. The patient responded well to anti-TB treatment along with a short course of low dose oral steroids. Vision in her right eye however remained compromised due to residual maculopathy. This is the first report of bilateral retinal vasculitis due to colonic TB. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3003856/ /pubmed/21217901 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.64232 Text en © Oman 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.
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Kannan, Balaji
Govindarajan, Kummararaj
Kummararaj, Sherin
Balaji, Vijayalakshmi
Natarajapillai, Venugopal
Retinal vasculitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis
title Retinal vasculitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis
title_full Retinal vasculitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis
title_fullStr Retinal vasculitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis
title_full_unstemmed Retinal vasculitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis
title_short Retinal vasculitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis
title_sort retinal vasculitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3003856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21217901
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.64232
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