Toxocara Neuroretinitis Associated with Raw Meat Consumption

Neuroretinitis characterized by optic disc edema and star-like exudates in the macula was detected in a patient who presented with sudden unilateral painless vision loss and had a history of raw meat consumption. The patient tested seropositive for Toxocara. Combination therapy with steroid and albe...

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Autores principales: Karaca, Irmak, Menteş, Jale, Nalçacı, Serhad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6216536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30405949
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.27085
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author Karaca, Irmak
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description Neuroretinitis characterized by optic disc edema and star-like exudates in the macula was detected in a patient who presented with sudden unilateral painless vision loss and had a history of raw meat consumption. The patient tested seropositive for Toxocara. Combination therapy with steroid and albendazole resulted in an increase in visual acuity and complete resolution of clinical signs.
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spelling pubmed-62165362018-11-07 Toxocara Neuroretinitis Associated with Raw Meat Consumption Karaca, Irmak Menteş, Jale Nalçacı, Serhad Turk J Ophthalmol Case Report Neuroretinitis characterized by optic disc edema and star-like exudates in the macula was detected in a patient who presented with sudden unilateral painless vision loss and had a history of raw meat consumption. The patient tested seropositive for Toxocara. Combination therapy with steroid and albendazole resulted in an increase in visual acuity and complete resolution of clinical signs. Galenos Publishing 2018-10 2018-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6216536/ /pubmed/30405949 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.27085 Text en © 2018 by Turkish Ophthalmological Association Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology, published by Galenos Publishing House. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ 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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Toxocara Neuroretinitis Associated with Raw Meat Consumption
title Toxocara Neuroretinitis Associated with Raw Meat Consumption
title_full Toxocara Neuroretinitis Associated with Raw Meat Consumption
title_fullStr Toxocara Neuroretinitis Associated with Raw Meat Consumption
title_full_unstemmed Toxocara Neuroretinitis Associated with Raw Meat Consumption
title_short Toxocara Neuroretinitis Associated with Raw Meat Consumption
title_sort toxocara neuroretinitis associated with raw meat consumption
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6216536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30405949
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.27085
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