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Optom Vis Sci
November 2022
Department of Ophthalmology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India.
Significance: In the recent past, there are increasing publications on microsporidia affecting the cornea in Asian population. However, microsporidia-causing endophthalmitis has been rarely reported. This report intends to draw the attention of eye care professionals to consider microsporidia as a differential diagnosis in cases of keratitis or endophthalmitis after ocular trauma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOcul Immunol Inflamm
January 2020
b Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok , Thailand.
: To describe a case of microsporidial stromal keratitis with endophthalmitis in an immunocompetent patient.: Case report: A 58-year-old HIV-negative man presented with stromal keratitis in his right eye. The patient demonstrated subsequent vitritis, multifocal retinitis and arteritis, and macular edema with recurrent vitreous hemorrhage after therapeutic keratoplasty.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect
December 2016
Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to report a case of microsporidial endophthalmitis after penetrating keratoplasty in a healthy patient and discuss the management.
Methods: This is a case report.
Results: A 69-year-old healthy male underwent penetrating keratoplasty for corneal scar secondary to herpes stromal keratitis.
Int J Med Microbiol
March 2005
Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland.
Encephalitozoon cuniculi was documented to cause disseminated microsporidial infection including an iris tumor and endophthalmitis in an adolescent with idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia. The diagnosis was established by microscopic, serologic and molecular methods. E.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRetina
February 2002
Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
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