Rare case of ocular tuberculosis in a diabetic patient: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas

We present the case of a patient who was diagnosed by chance with macular hypopyon during a conventional interdisciplinary examination. The clinical context and the association of a systemic disease, such as uncontrolled type 1 diabetes, rendered further investigations in this patient. Due to his im...

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Autores principales: Pantalon, Anca, Găman, Emanuela, Crețu-Silivestru, Iustina-Silvia, Danielescu, Ciprian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Romanian Society of Ophthalmology 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450388
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author Pantalon, Anca
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Crețu-Silivestru, Iustina-Silvia
Danielescu, Ciprian
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description We present the case of a patient who was diagnosed by chance with macular hypopyon during a conventional interdisciplinary examination. The clinical context and the association of a systemic disease, such as uncontrolled type 1 diabetes, rendered further investigations in this patient. Due to his immunocompromised status, etiology such as ocular fungi, lymphomas, tuberculosis was taken into account. Thorough complex investigations oriented the diagnosis towards ocular tuberculosis involvement.
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spelling pubmed-57100232017-12-14 Rare case of ocular tuberculosis in a diabetic patient: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas Pantalon, Anca Găman, Emanuela Crețu-Silivestru, Iustina-Silvia Danielescu, Ciprian Rom J Ophthalmol Case Reports We present the case of a patient who was diagnosed by chance with macular hypopyon during a conventional interdisciplinary examination. The clinical context and the association of a systemic disease, such as uncontrolled type 1 diabetes, rendered further investigations in this patient. Due to his immunocompromised status, etiology such as ocular fungi, lymphomas, tuberculosis was taken into account. Thorough complex investigations oriented the diagnosis towards ocular tuberculosis involvement. Romanian Society of Ophthalmology 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5710023/ /pubmed/29450388 Text en ©Romanian Society of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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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title Rare case of ocular tuberculosis in a diabetic patient: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas
title_full Rare case of ocular tuberculosis in a diabetic patient: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas
title_fullStr Rare case of ocular tuberculosis in a diabetic patient: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas
title_full_unstemmed Rare case of ocular tuberculosis in a diabetic patient: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas
title_short Rare case of ocular tuberculosis in a diabetic patient: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas
title_sort rare case of ocular tuberculosis in a diabetic patient: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas
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