Rare presentation of definitive ocular tuberculosis in an immunocompetent young patient.

Ocular tuberculosis is not uncommon ocular presentation in our community nowadays. Rare presentations described mainly in the immunocompromised patients. The diagnosis of ocular TB is presumed in the vast majority of the cases of the intraocular TB.

Initial diagnosis of leprosy in patients treated by an ophthalmologist and confirmation by conventional analysis and polymerase chain reaction.

Purpose: To report the initial diagnosis of leprosy in patients seeking treatment from an ophthalmologist in a tertiary eye care center, its confirmation by histopathologic and polymerase chain reaction analysis, and review of literature.

Design: Noncomparative retrospective case series.

Participants: Patients with no known history of leprosy who were selected based on either a clinical suspicion or a histopathologic diagnosis and were found to have ocular or periocular lesions suggestive of leprosy.

Late-onset donor-to-host transmission of Candida glabrata following corneal transplantation.

Objective: To demonstrate the potential value of obtaining routine fungal cultures of donor rims at the time of corneal transplantation and instituting prophylactic therapy in culture-positive cases, even in the absence of clinical evidence of established microbial keratitis or endophthalmitis.

Methods: Interventional case report and literature review.

Results: A 69-year-old Saudi man underwent penetrating keratoplasty with donor tissue that was culture-positive for Candida glabrata.