Malarial retinopathy in adult: a case report

Although widely reported in children, the malarial retinopathy has rarely been described in adults. We observed a case in the department of ophthalmology at the pediatric and gynecology-obstetrics Yaoundé Hospital. The diagnosis revealing a decrease in visual acuity was confirmed by thorough ophthal...

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Autores principales: Nanfack, Chantal Ngoune, Bilong, Yannick, Kagmeni, Giles, Nathan, Ngoulou Ngoulou, Bella, Lucienne Assumpta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5622811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28979626
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.27.224.11026
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author Nanfack, Chantal Ngoune
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Bella, Lucienne Assumpta
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description Although widely reported in children, the malarial retinopathy has rarely been described in adults. We observed a case in the department of ophthalmology at the pediatric and gynecology-obstetrics Yaoundé Hospital. The diagnosis revealing a decrease in visual acuity was confirmed by thorough ophthalmological and biological assessments. The basic treatment by quinine therapy was conclusive. The authors point out the need to consider this diagnosis in case of any decrease in visual acuity in febrile context for any adult living or recently having stayed in endemic areas.
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spelling pubmed-56228112017-10-04 Malarial retinopathy in adult: a case report Nanfack, Chantal Ngoune Bilong, Yannick Kagmeni, Giles Nathan, Ngoulou Ngoulou Bella, Lucienne Assumpta Pan Afr Med J Case Report Although widely reported in children, the malarial retinopathy has rarely been described in adults. We observed a case in the department of ophthalmology at the pediatric and gynecology-obstetrics Yaoundé Hospital. The diagnosis revealing a decrease in visual acuity was confirmed by thorough ophthalmological and biological assessments. The basic treatment by quinine therapy was conclusive. The authors point out the need to consider this diagnosis in case of any decrease in visual acuity in febrile context for any adult living or recently having stayed in endemic areas. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5622811/ /pubmed/28979626 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.27.224.11026 Text en © Chantal Ngoune Nanfack et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. 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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