Publications by authors named "A P Curi"

Background: Pregnant women constitute a vulnerable population occasionally affected by zoonotic sporotrichosis. Treatment is challenging due to potentially teratogenic oral medications (itraconazole and saturated potassium iodide solution) or lack of clinical experience during pregnancy (terbinafine). Literature is scarce on sporotrichosis and pregnancy, mainly consisting of case reports.

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Purpose: This study aims to describe the clinical and laboratory outcomes of patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) presenting multifocal choroiditis secondary to . infection.

Methods: We reviewed the clinical records of AIDS patients diagnosed with cryptococcal multifocal choroiditis at the Laboratory of Infectious Disease in Ophthalmology, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, from January 2022 to March 2024.

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Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare and potentially devastating bilateral diffuse granulomatous panuveitis. It is caused by surgical or non-surgical eye injuries and is an uncommon and serious complication of trauma. It is diagnosed clinically and supported by imaging examinations such as ocular ultrasonography and optical coherence tomography.

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Bilateral acute depigmentation of the iris and bilateral acute iris transillumination (BAIT) are similar clinical entities. The former causes acute-onset depigmentation of the iris stroma without transillumination, whereas the latter causes depigmentation of the iris pigment epithelium with transillumination. The etiopathogenesis of these conditions is not yet fully understood, but the proposed causes include the use of systemic antibiotics (especially moxifloxacin) and viral triggers.

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Purpose: To describe the most important cause of infectious posterior uveitis in pediatric patients.

Methods: Review of the literature.

Results: The most important causes of infectious uveitis in pediatric patients are: cat-scratch disease, toxocariasis, tuberculosis, viral diseases and toxoplasmosis.

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