Atypical Presentation of Ocular Toxoplasmosis: A Case Report of Exudative Retinal Detachment and Choroidal Ischemia

A 24-year-old healthy male presented with a chief complaint of blurred vision in the right eye for 1-week. Fundus examination indicated right exudative retinal detachment and choroidal ischemia. The patient responded well to anti-toxoplasmosis medications and steroids. Exudative retinal detachment a...

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Autores principales: Al-Zahrani, Yahya A., Al-Dhibi, Hassan A., Al-Abdullah, Abdulelah A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4759896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26957857
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.164624
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author Al-Zahrani, Yahya A.
Al-Dhibi, Hassan A.
Al-Abdullah, Abdulelah A.
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description A 24-year-old healthy male presented with a chief complaint of blurred vision in the right eye for 1-week. Fundus examination indicated right exudative retinal detachment and choroidal ischemia. The patient responded well to anti-toxoplasmosis medications and steroids. Exudative retinal detachment and choroidal ischemia are atypical presentations of ocular toxoplasmosis. However, both conditions responded well to anti.parasitic therapy with steroid.
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spelling pubmed-47598962016-03-08 Atypical Presentation of Ocular Toxoplasmosis: A Case Report of Exudative Retinal Detachment and Choroidal Ischemia Al-Zahrani, Yahya A. Al-Dhibi, Hassan A. Al-Abdullah, Abdulelah A. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report A 24-year-old healthy male presented with a chief complaint of blurred vision in the right eye for 1-week. Fundus examination indicated right exudative retinal detachment and choroidal ischemia. The patient responded well to anti-toxoplasmosis medications and steroids. Exudative retinal detachment and choroidal ischemia are atypical presentations of ocular toxoplasmosis. However, both conditions responded well to anti.parasitic therapy with steroid. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4759896/ /pubmed/26957857 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.164624 Text en Copyright: © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Al-Zahrani, Yahya A.
Al-Dhibi, Hassan A.
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Atypical Presentation of Ocular Toxoplasmosis: A Case Report of Exudative Retinal Detachment and Choroidal Ischemia
title Atypical Presentation of Ocular Toxoplasmosis: A Case Report of Exudative Retinal Detachment and Choroidal Ischemia
title_full Atypical Presentation of Ocular Toxoplasmosis: A Case Report of Exudative Retinal Detachment and Choroidal Ischemia
title_fullStr Atypical Presentation of Ocular Toxoplasmosis: A Case Report of Exudative Retinal Detachment and Choroidal Ischemia
title_full_unstemmed Atypical Presentation of Ocular Toxoplasmosis: A Case Report of Exudative Retinal Detachment and Choroidal Ischemia
title_short Atypical Presentation of Ocular Toxoplasmosis: A Case Report of Exudative Retinal Detachment and Choroidal Ischemia
title_sort atypical presentation of ocular toxoplasmosis: a case report of exudative retinal detachment and choroidal ischemia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4759896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26957857
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.164624
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