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Ocular tuberculosis masquerading as atypical ocular toxoplasmosis

GMS Ophthalmology Cases, 2023
Ocular tuberculosis is a great mimicker of various uveitis entities. We present a case of a 29-year-old male who came in with blurring of vision and floaters in the left eye. On examination, the left eye had anterior chamber cells and vitritis associated
Bromeo, Albert John, Lerit, Sweet Jorlene, Arcinue, Cheryl   +2 more
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Ocular Tuberculosis I: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Clinical Features

Türk Oftalmoloji Dergisi, 2011
The World Health Organization has declared tuberculosis (TB) to be a global emergency, as it remains the most common single cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Sumru Önal, ilknur Tuğal-Tutkun
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Ocular Tuberculosis II: Diagnosis and Treatment

Türk Oftalmoloji Dergisi, 2011
Recent studies on the clinical importance of tuberculin skin tests (TST), interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs), chest computed tomography (CT) and polymerase chain reaction have provided a new approach to diagnosing ocular tuberculosis (TBC ...
Sumru Önal, ilknur Tuğal-Tutkun
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Sudden monocular vision decrease caused by isolated choroidal tuberculoma during anti-tuberculosis treatment: a case report [PDF]

BMC Ophthalmology
Mycobacterium tuberculosis primarily causes pulmonary diseases; however, it can also affect extrapulmonary organs, including the eyes. The choroid, as the intraocular tissue with the richest blood supply, is one of the most susceptible structures to ...
Cheng Zuo, Ya-Li Yang, Jun-Feng Yang
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Tuberculosis ocular [PDF]

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 1950
La evolución etiológica de la medicina la podemos dividir en dos grandes períodos: período de la sífilis y período de la tuberculosis. El período de la sífilis, gracias a las armas de combate de que hoy disponemos, ocupa un lugar secundario.
Francisco Infante Barrera
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Ocular tuberculosis: current perspectives [PDF]

Clinical Ophthalmology, 2015
Faiz I Shakarchi1,21Ibn Al-Haetham Teaching Eye Hospital, 2Department of Opthalmology, Medical College, Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, IraqAbstract: The World Health Organization currently estimates that nearly two billion people, or one-third of ...
Shakarchi FI
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Assessing the Combined Diagnostic Value of Serum ACE Levels, Mantoux Test and Lymphopenia in Uveitis Patients from a Tertiary Eye Care Center in Southern India [PDF]

Clinical Ophthalmology
Harsha Puthanveettil,1 Siva Raman Bala Murugan,2 Bharat Gurnani,3 Kirandeep Kaur,4 Srinivasan Sanjay51Department of General Ophthalmology, Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, 605007, India; 2Department of Uveitis and Ocular Inflammation Uveitis Clinic ...
Puthanveettil H, Bala Murugan SR, Gurnani B, Kaur K, Sanjay S   +4 more
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Visual Morbidity in Ocular Tuberculosis - Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS)-1: Report #6

, 2021
Objective Aim of the study was to examine extent, natural history, and clinical features associated with visual impairment (VI) in patients diagnosed with ocular tuberculosis (OTB) by the Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS)-1.
Bansal, Reema, Agrawal, Rupesh, Sharma, Aman, Moharana, Bruttendu, Bodaghi, Bahram, Pavesio, Carlos, Teoh, Stephen, Al-Dhibi, Hassan, Singh, Ramandeep, Gupta, Vishali, Chee, Soon-Phaik, Invernizzi, Alessandro, Kempen, John H., Lee, Richard, Mahajan, Sarakshi, Gunasekeran, Dinesh Visva, Vala, Ruchi, Tugal-Tutkun, Ilknur, Sharma, Kusum, Westcott, Mark, Barisani-Asenbauer, Talin, Narain, Shishir, Tasiopoulou, Anastasia, Zierhut, Manfred, Murthy, Somasheila, Gonzalez-Lopez, Julio J., Biswas, Jyotirmay, Kon, Onn Min, Babu, Kalpana, Cunningham, Emmett T., Goldstein, Debra A., Agarwal, Mamta, Jones, Nicholas, Basu, Soumayava, Androudi, Sofia, Agarwal, Aniruddha, Quan Dong Nguyen, Quan Dong Nguyen, Aggarwal, Kanika, Abraham, Sharanaya, Nadarajah, Sengal, Mahendradas, Padmamalini, Herbort, Carl P., Carreno, Ester, Mccluskey, Peter, Testi, Ilaria, Agarwal, Manisha, Cimino, Luca, Khairallah, Moncef, Raje, Dhananjay, Degli Esposti, Simona, Ho, Su Ling   +50 more
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Ocular tuberculosis: Position paper on diagnosis and treatment management

Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia (English Edition), 2017
Delay in diagnosis or treatment of ocular tuberculosis can result in loss of vision. However, due to the fact that early diagnosis is rarely achieved, there are still a broad variety of diagnostic and treatment approaches.Our aim was to reach a consensus
L. Figueira, S. Fonseca, I. Ladeira, R. Duarte   +3 more
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Asymptomatic occlusive retinal vasculitis in newly diagnosed active tuberculosis

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021
Introduction: Worldwide, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from an infectious disease. Ocular involvement can cause significant and permanent vision loss. Ocular manifestations of tuberculosis often present with visual symptoms.
Christopher Bartimote, Samantha Fraser-Bell, Hamish Dunn   +2 more
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