Unilateral optic neuritis as a presentation of neurobrucellosis

Neurobrucellosis manifesting as optic neuritis is a rare disease in childhood. We report a case of neurobrucellosis in a 11 year old girl leading to visual impairment and headache. Physical examination revealed mild oedema of right tibiotarsic joint and optic neuritis. Investigations showed CSF pleo...

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Autores principales: Marques, Rita, Martins, Cristina, Machado, Inês, Monteiro, José Paulo, Campos, Nuno, Calhau, Paulo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21772948
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/pr.2011.e11
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Sumario:Neurobrucellosis manifesting as optic neuritis is a rare disease in childhood. We report a case of neurobrucellosis in a 11 year old girl leading to visual impairment and headache. Physical examination revealed mild oedema of right tibiotarsic joint and optic neuritis. Investigations showed CSF pleocytosis and a Brucella serum agglutination titer of 1/640. Complete reversal of the symptoms was observed after appropriate antibiotic treatment. To our knowledge only four cases of neurobrucellosis manifesting with visual impairment in childhood are previously reported in literature.

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