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Retin Cases Brief Rep
December 2024
Department of Histopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Purpose: To report a case of bilateral anterior uveitis, pigmentary retinopathy, and pars plana exudates in a patient with Celiac disease with complete resolution of inflammation following gluten-free diet.
Methods: Retrospective case report.
Results: A 19-year-old Asian Indian girl presented with bilateral non-granulomatous anterior uveitis for the past 2 months.
Retin Cases Brief Rep
December 2024
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Purpose: To report the clinical presentation, treatment course, and outcome of a case of bilateral frosted branch angiitis (FBA) and neuroretinitis associated with acute Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in a pediatric patient with Turner Syndrome.
Methods: Case report with multimodal ocular imaging and extensive systemic workup.
Results: A 16-year-old female with Turner syndrome presented with acute bilateral vision loss, hearing loss, and ataxia.
J Vitreoretin Dis
December 2024
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Ophthalmology Section, Lebanon, NH, USA.
To describe the efficacy of belzutifan as a treatment for juxtapapillary retinal hemangioblastomas in patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease. A case and its findings were analyzed, and a systematic literature review was conducted using PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE. At a routine follow-up, a 63-year-old woman with a history of von Hippel-Lindau disease and slowly progressive bilateral juxtapapillary retinal hemangioblastomas presented with decreased visual acuity (VA) in the right eye resulting from significant lesion growth and an increase in central macular edema and exudate.
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October 2024
Texas A&M School of Medicine, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Exudative (wet) age-related macular degeneration can be treated with the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-inhibiting monoclonal antibody bevacizumab. Currently, bevacizumab therapy is associated with known skin-related side effects, such as rash, mucosal hemorrhage, and hemorrhagic ulcers. While subungual "splinter" hemorrhage is a documented side effect of VEGF receptor antagonists and Raf protein inhibitors, there are no prior reports of bevacizumab-induced subungual hemorrhage to the best of our knowledge.
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December 2024
General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, NHS Lanarkshire, Bothwell, South Lanarkshire, UK.
Pancreaticopleural fistula (PPF) is a rare complication of chronic pancreatitis, which clinically presents as a pleural effusion and often with an absence of typical abdominal symptoms associated with pancreatic disease.We describe a man in his early 50s who presented to the emergency department with pleuritic chest pain and progressive breathlessness with a history of alcohol excess. Chest X-ray demonstrated a bilateral pleural effusion with a dark red amylase-rich exudate on needle aspiration, necessitating a chest drain insertion.
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