Publications by authors named "Margje Schuller"
Purpose: To assess the clinical usefulness of aqueous fluid analysis for the diagnosis and treatment of patients suspected of having infectious posterior uveitis (PU).
Design: Case-control study.
Participants: From 2002 through 2005, 152 eyes from 152 patients with active PU (16 of whom were immunosuppressed) underwent diagnostic aqueous testing.
Purpose: Family physicians usually diagnose herpes zoster on clinical grounds only, possibly resulting in false-positive diagnoses and unnecessary treatment. We wanted to determine the positive predictive value of the physicians' judgment in diagnosing herpes zoster and to assess the applicability of dried blood spot analysis for diagnosis of herpes zoster in family practice.
Methods: Our study population consisted of 272 patients older than 50 years with herpes zoster (rash for less than 7 days).
Purpose: To determine the relative contribution of the analysis of intraocular antibody production and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in aqueous humor (AH) to the diagnosis of infectious uveitis.
Design: Retrospective case-control study.
Methods: Paired AH and serum samples from 230 patients suspected of infectious uveitis were examined for intraocular antibody production against herpes simplex virus (HSV), varicella zoster virus (VZV), and Toxoplasma gondii by calculating the Goldmann-Witmer coefficient (GWC).
Purpose: To determine whether rubella virus (RV) is involved in the pathogenesis of Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis (FHI).
Design: Retrospective patient-controlled study.
Methods: Intraocular immunoglobulin G production against RV, herpes simplex virus (HSV), varicella zoster virus (VZV), and Toxoplasma gondii was determined in the aqueous humor of 14 patients with FHI, 13 control subjects with herpetic uveitis anterior, and 19 control subjects with ocular toxoplasmosis by calculation of the Goldmann-Witmer coefficient (GWC).