Dexamethasone Implant as Sole Therapy in Sympathetic Ophthalmia [PDF]
Case Reports in Ophthalmology, 2018 We present the case of a 46-year-old woman with sympathetic ophthalmia occurring 27 years after complicated juvenile cataract surgeries. The patient declined systemic immunosuppressive therapy.
Ahmad M. Mansour
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A rare entity: Sympathetic ophthalmia presumably after blunt trauma to the phthisical eye and optical coherence tomography angiography metrics to monitor response to treatment [PDF]
Clinical Case Reports, 2020 A blunt trauma to a phthisical eye may elicit sympathetic ophthalmia. Non invasive imaging such as use of optical coherence tomography and angiography metrics of the retinal and choroidal vasculature can help monitor response to the treatment.
Anadi Khatri +6 more
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An atypical presentation of sympathetic ophthalmia following chemical ocular burns [PDF]
Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection, 2023 Background Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare disease that can present as bilateral granulomatous uveitis after a penetrating trauma or surgery in one eye.
Pooja Bansal +5 more
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Sympathetic ophthalmia following radiation-induced scleral necrosis in choroidal melanoma [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023 Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) is a bilateral granulomatous panuveitis. We report a rare case of SO presenting after scleral necrosis as a late complication of Gamma Knife radiotherapy for choroidal melanoma.
Yen-Cheng Chen +4 more
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Sympathetic ophthalmia: A comprehensive update [PDF]
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare, bilateral, granulomatous, panuveitis following penetrating trauma or surgery to one eye. Clinical presentation commonly occurs within the first year of trauma occurrence but can be delayed by several years.
Swapnil Parchand +11 more
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Classification Criteria for Sympathetic Ophthalmia. [PDF]
Am J Ophthalmol, 2021 PURPOSE: To determine classification criteria for sympathetic ophthalmia DESIGN: Machine learning of cases with sympathetic ophthalmia and 5 other panuveitides. METHODS: Cases of panuveitides were collected in an informatics-designed preliminary database,
Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Working Group.
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“Persistence of Memory” – Multimodal imaging of delayed sympathetic ophthalmia [PDF]
American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2022 Purpose: To describe a case of late post-surgical sympathetic ophthalmia documented with multimodal imaging. Observations: A 74-year-old male presented to the urgent care of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary with blurry vision and discomfort in his left
Carl S. Wilkins +6 more
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Sympathetic ophthalmia presenting 5 days after penetrating injury [PDF]
American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2020 Purpose: To describe a rare case of early sympathetic ophthalmia that presented 5 days after penetrating injury. Observations: A 13-year-old boy presented with a penetrating left globe injury from a BB metallic projectile that was emergently repaired ...
Andrew M. Williams +3 more
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Changing etiology of sympathetic ophthalmia: A 10-year study from a tertiary referral center in Taiwan [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023 PURPOSE: In this study, we describe our experience of sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) at a tertiary referral center in Taiwan. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed records of patients diagnosed with SO from January 2011 to December 2020 ...
Shih-Chou Chen +2 more
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Sympathetic ophthalmia in eye with pathologic myopia [PDF]
American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2022 Purpose: To present our findings in a case of SO that developed in an eye with pathologic myopia. Observations: The patient was an 83-year-old woman who was examined one month after an ocular trauma to the right eye.
Shintaro Horie +3 more
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