Retinitis as the presenting feature of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in an Indian male: A case report

Measles virus is a rare but important cause for acute retinitis as it can eventually lead to the fulminant complication of SSPE. We report a case of a young Indian male with acute viral retinitis who subsequently developed SSPE. It is of paramount importance to consider measles virus and SSPE as a c...

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Autores principales: Shah, Amravi, Babu, Rajesh, Biswas, Jyotirmoy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6173037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30249850
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_251_18
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description Measles virus is a rare but important cause for acute retinitis as it can eventually lead to the fulminant complication of SSPE. We report a case of a young Indian male with acute viral retinitis who subsequently developed SSPE. It is of paramount importance to consider measles virus and SSPE as a cause in an immunocompetent young adult with necrotizing viral retinitis
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spelling pubmed-61730372018-10-10 Retinitis as the presenting feature of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in an Indian male: A case report Shah, Amravi Babu, Rajesh Biswas, Jyotirmoy Indian J Ophthalmol Case Reports Measles virus is a rare but important cause for acute retinitis as it can eventually lead to the fulminant complication of SSPE. We report a case of a young Indian male with acute viral retinitis who subsequently developed SSPE. It is of paramount importance to consider measles virus and SSPE as a cause in an immunocompetent young adult with necrotizing viral retinitis Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6173037/ /pubmed/30249850 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_251_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Retinitis as the presenting feature of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in an Indian male: A case report
title Retinitis as the presenting feature of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in an Indian male: A case report
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title_fullStr Retinitis as the presenting feature of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in an Indian male: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Retinitis as the presenting feature of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in an Indian male: A case report
title_short Retinitis as the presenting feature of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in an Indian male: A case report
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