Optimal management of Cogan’s syndrome: a multidisciplinary approach [PDF]
, 2017 Cogan's syndrome (CS) is a rare disorder characterized by nonsyphilitic interstitial keratitis (IK) and audio-vestibular symptoms. CS affects mainly young Caucasian adults, mostly during their first three decades of age, and may develop into typical and ...
D'Aguanno, Vittorio +3 more
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Posterior Scleritis in Familial Mediterranean Fever
Case Reports in Ophthalmology, 2019 Purpose: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a monogenic autoinflammatory disease presenting as sporadic paroxysmal attacks of fever and abdominal pain.
Ahmad M. Mansour +2 more
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Benefits of early treatment with intravenous methylprednisolone in recurrent posterior scleritis
Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2014 The rarity and posterior location of posterior scleritis eludes diagnosis. Similarly, etiological factors of posterior scleritis could be identified in less than half of the cases.
Anupama Bappal +2 more
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Tuberculous scleritis in a young Asian Indian girl—a case presentation and literature review
Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection, 2019 Scleritis is the severe painful inflammation of the sclera, which can be infectious or non-infectious. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the common causes of infectious scleritis. TB, though endemic in countries like India, is rare in pediatric age group.
Lagan Paul +4 more
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Optic atrophy, necrotizing anterior scleritis and keratitis presenting in association with Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome: a case report [PDF]
, 2008 Introduction We report a case of optic atrophy, necrotizing anterior scleritis and keratitis presenting in a patient with Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome.
Konstantinos I Papageorgiou +3 more
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Paediatric Behçet's disease presenting with recurrent papillitis and episcleritis: a case report [PDF]
, 2011 Introduction Behçet's disease is a chronic multisystem vasculitis characterized by mucocutaneous, articular, neurological, gastrointestinal and ophthalmological lesions.
Fulvio Parentin +3 more
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DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC CHALLENGES OF POSTERIOR SCLERITIS MIMICKING CHOROIDAL MELANOMA
IJRETINA (International Journal of Retina)Introduction: Posterior scleritis is a rare form of scleritis. Posterior scleritis occur in 2-12% of cases of scleritis, 64,4-71,1% occur in female. Its clinical features may be confused with choroidal pathologies like choroidal melanoma.
kristina yuniasih +2 more
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Review of Systemic Immunosuppression for Autoimmune Uveitis [PDF]
, 2014 The purpose of this review is to comprehensively examine the various therapeutic agents available to treat autoimmune eye disease, their indications, clinical safety and recent developments.
Castiblanco, Claudia, Foster, C. Stephen
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Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 Purpose: To analyze the morphological outcomes of the posterior corneal opacity or “semilunar sign” in noninfectious anterior scleritis using multimodal imaging. Methods: This was a prospective observational case series.
Dhivya Ashok Kumar +3 more
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Clinical spectum of tuberculous optic neuropathy [PDF]
, 2012 Purpose Tuberculous optic neuropathy may follow infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis or administration of the bacille Calmette–Guerin. However, this condition is not well described in the ophthalmic literature.
AJ Mooney +21 more
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