Rapidly blinding posterior tubercular uveitis

BACKGROUND: A 21-year-old female patient had chorioretinitis in the left eye which relapsed while being on anti-tubercular treatment and oral corticosteroids leading to blindness and the loss of the left eye. FINDINGS: Mycobacterium tuberculosis causing chorioretinitis showed a poor response, and th...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Manisha, Jha, Vivek, Biswas, Jyotirmay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2014
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25006352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1869-5760-4-13
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description BACKGROUND: A 21-year-old female patient had chorioretinitis in the left eye which relapsed while being on anti-tubercular treatment and oral corticosteroids leading to blindness and the loss of the left eye. FINDINGS: Mycobacterium tuberculosis causing chorioretinitis showed a poor response, and the lung lesions showed a good response to the same anti-tubercular treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Mycobacterium tubercle bacilli in the eye may show a poor response to the anti-tubercular drugs due to poor ocular penetration of the drugs secondary to early ocular hypoxia.
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spelling pubmed-40776452014-07-08 Rapidly blinding posterior tubercular uveitis Agarwal, Manisha Jha, Vivek Biswas, Jyotirmay J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect Brief Report BACKGROUND: A 21-year-old female patient had chorioretinitis in the left eye which relapsed while being on anti-tubercular treatment and oral corticosteroids leading to blindness and the loss of the left eye. FINDINGS: Mycobacterium tuberculosis causing chorioretinitis showed a poor response, and the lung lesions showed a good response to the same anti-tubercular treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Mycobacterium tubercle bacilli in the eye may show a poor response to the anti-tubercular drugs due to poor ocular penetration of the drugs secondary to early ocular hypoxia. Springer 2014-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4077645/ /pubmed/25006352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1869-5760-4-13 Text en Copyright © 2014 Agarwal et al.; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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title_short Rapidly blinding posterior tubercular uveitis
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