Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis Associated With Large Vessel Vasculitis

Peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) is a non-infectious ulcer at the peripheral corneal stroma. Autoimmune diseases can cause PUK, but PUK caused by large vessel vasculitis (LVV) has rarely been reported. We report the case of a 71-year-old woman with complaints of low-grade fever and left eye pai...

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Autores principales: Uchida, Shun, Kaji, Yuki, Ui, Mutushito, Kawashima, Hirotoshi, Usui, Tomohiko, Ohira, Yoshiyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Ophthalmology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8290306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34290940
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15767
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author Uchida, Shun
Kaji, Yuki
Ui, Mutushito
Kawashima, Hirotoshi
Usui, Tomohiko
Ohira, Yoshiyuki
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description Peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) is a non-infectious ulcer at the peripheral corneal stroma. Autoimmune diseases can cause PUK, but PUK caused by large vessel vasculitis (LVV) has rarely been reported. We report the case of a 71-year-old woman with complaints of low-grade fever and left eye pain. Ophthalmologic examination revealed PUK in the left eye, and we diagnosed LVV by (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) findings. The patient was treated with topical betamethasone eye drops for PUK and oral prednisolone for LVV. This case suggests that LVV can cause PUK.
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spelling pubmed-82903062021-07-20 Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis Associated With Large Vessel Vasculitis Uchida, Shun Kaji, Yuki Ui, Mutushito Kawashima, Hirotoshi Usui, Tomohiko Ohira, Yoshiyuki Cureus Ophthalmology Peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) is a non-infectious ulcer at the peripheral corneal stroma. Autoimmune diseases can cause PUK, but PUK caused by large vessel vasculitis (LVV) has rarely been reported. We report the case of a 71-year-old woman with complaints of low-grade fever and left eye pain. Ophthalmologic examination revealed PUK in the left eye, and we diagnosed LVV by (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) findings. The patient was treated with topical betamethasone eye drops for PUK and oral prednisolone for LVV. This case suggests that LVV can cause PUK. Cureus 2021-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8290306/ /pubmed/34290940 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15767 Text en Copyright © 2021, Uchida et al. https://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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title Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis Associated With Large Vessel Vasculitis
title_full Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis Associated With Large Vessel Vasculitis
title_fullStr Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis Associated With Large Vessel Vasculitis
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title_short Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis Associated With Large Vessel Vasculitis
title_sort peripheral ulcerative keratitis associated with large vessel vasculitis
topic Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8290306/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15767
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