Intraventricular Tuberculoma with Profound Visual Loss: A Case Report and Literature Review

Intracranial tuberculoma is a rare manifestation of tuberculosis involving the central nervous system. The involvement of the ventricular system is extremely uncommon. We describe a young woman with bilateral papilledema secondary to intraventricular tuberculoma with hydrocephalus. She was treated w...

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Autores principales: Tengku-Fatishah, Amir, Besari, Alwi Muhd, Tharakan, John, Shatriah, Ismail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6093272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30123729
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2807
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author Tengku-Fatishah, Amir
Besari, Alwi Muhd
Tharakan, John
Shatriah, Ismail
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description Intracranial tuberculoma is a rare manifestation of tuberculosis involving the central nervous system. The involvement of the ventricular system is extremely uncommon. We describe a young woman with bilateral papilledema secondary to intraventricular tuberculoma with hydrocephalus. She was treated with anti-tuberculosis therapy and intravenous dexamethasone. Her visual acuity deteriorated after one month of treatment. We provide a literature review of this uncommon ocular sequelae.
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spelling pubmed-60932722018-08-17 Intraventricular Tuberculoma with Profound Visual Loss: A Case Report and Literature Review Tengku-Fatishah, Amir Besari, Alwi Muhd Tharakan, John Shatriah, Ismail Cureus Neurology Intracranial tuberculoma is a rare manifestation of tuberculosis involving the central nervous system. The involvement of the ventricular system is extremely uncommon. We describe a young woman with bilateral papilledema secondary to intraventricular tuberculoma with hydrocephalus. She was treated with anti-tuberculosis therapy and intravenous dexamethasone. Her visual acuity deteriorated after one month of treatment. We provide a literature review of this uncommon ocular sequelae. Cureus 2018-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6093272/ /pubmed/30123729 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2807 Text en Copyright © 2018, Tengku-Fatishah et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Intraventricular Tuberculoma with Profound Visual Loss: A Case Report and Literature Review
title Intraventricular Tuberculoma with Profound Visual Loss: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Intraventricular Tuberculoma with Profound Visual Loss: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Intraventricular Tuberculoma with Profound Visual Loss: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Intraventricular Tuberculoma with Profound Visual Loss: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Intraventricular Tuberculoma with Profound Visual Loss: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort intraventricular tuberculoma with profound visual loss: a case report and literature review
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6093272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30123729
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2807
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