Melanoma-Associated Retinopathy 28 Years After Diagnosis

Brucellosis Reactivation after 28 Years

To the Editor: Approximately 10% of patients with brucellosis experience a relapse, 90% of which occur within a year after discontinuation of antimicrobial drug therapy (1,2). Here we report a patient who had brucel-losis in a disease-endemic area, immigrated to a brucellosis-free region, and experienced focal reactivation in her gallbladder 28 years later. To our knowledge, this interval is am...

purtscher retinopathy associated with valsalva retinopathy after accident

purpose : to report a case of purtscher retinopathy associated with valsalva retinopathy after car accident methods : a 54-year-old man presented with a sudden visual loss in his left eye after car accident. fundus examination of the left eye showed cotton-wool spots and retinal hemorrhages in the posterior pole associated with subhyaloid hemorrhage in macula. results : fundus examination showe...

Melanoma-associated retinopathy: a paraneoplastic autoimmune complication.

OBJECTIVES To study 11 patients with melanoma-associated retinopathy (MAR) to clarify the reliability of various methods of diagnostic testing, to determine the underlying antigenic retinal proteins, and to study the clinical histories and types of associated melanomas. METHODS Clinical data were obtained from patients with melanoma who developed marked visual problems. Testing included elect...

A Clinical Diagnosis Made Bench Side after Two Years

Frequency of diabetic retinopathy in patients after ten years of diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

BACKGROUND Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most common and serious complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus and a leading cause of blindness not only in Pakistan but also worldwide. So we conducted this study to record the frequency of diabetic retinopathy in known diabetic patients ten years after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS The study was conducted at Liaquat Universit...