Retinal vein occlusion during flare of multicentric Castleman’s disease

We report a case of successive bilateral retinal vein occlusion in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive male with multicentric Castleman’s disease treated successfully with a single injection of intravitreal bevacizumab. Castleman’s disease should be a differential diagnosis of occlusive re...

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Autores principales: Kozak, Igor, Reid, Erin G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23983453
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S47448
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description We report a case of successive bilateral retinal vein occlusion in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive male with multicentric Castleman’s disease treated successfully with a single injection of intravitreal bevacizumab. Castleman’s disease should be a differential diagnosis of occlusive retinovascular disease and, occasionally, ocular manifestation can lead to systemic diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-37478472013-08-27 Retinal vein occlusion during flare of multicentric Castleman’s disease Kozak, Igor Reid, Erin G Clin Ophthalmol Case Report We report a case of successive bilateral retinal vein occlusion in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive male with multicentric Castleman’s disease treated successfully with a single injection of intravitreal bevacizumab. Castleman’s disease should be a differential diagnosis of occlusive retinovascular disease and, occasionally, ocular manifestation can lead to systemic diagnosis. Dove Medical Press 2013 2013-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3747847/ /pubmed/23983453 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S47448 Text en © 2013 Kozak and Reid. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Ltd, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Ltd, provided the work is properly attributed.
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title Retinal vein occlusion during flare of multicentric Castleman’s disease
title_full Retinal vein occlusion during flare of multicentric Castleman’s disease
title_fullStr Retinal vein occlusion during flare of multicentric Castleman’s disease
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title_short Retinal vein occlusion during flare of multicentric Castleman’s disease
title_sort retinal vein occlusion during flare of multicentric castleman’s disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747847/
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