Necrotizing Herpetic Retinitis

Herpetic Viral Retinitis

Human Herpes Virus (HHV) is a DNA virus and is the most important viral pathogen causing intraocular inflammation. HHV is classified into types 1-8. Among these types, HHV-1, HHV-2, HHV-3 Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) and HHV-5 Cytomegalovirus (CMV) are known to cause herpetic viral retinitis, including acute retinal necrosis and CMV retinitis. Herpes viral retinitis can be diagnosed from charac...

Electroretinogram Changes in the Sound Eye of Subjects with Unilateral Necrotizing Herpetic Retinitis

PURPOSE To evaluate electroretinogram (ERG) changes in the contralateral normal appearing eye of patients with unilateral acute necrotizing herpetic retinitis (NHR). METHODS This interventional case series includes subjects with acute unilateral NHR. All patients were treated with intravenous followed by oral acyclovir and systemic steroids. Main outcome measures were changes in a- and b-wave...

Necrotizing retinitis of multifactorial etiology

Introduction. We present the case of a 73-year-old woman with osteoporosis, who presented to the emergency room with a sudden vision loss and ocular pain in the right eye, which appeared two days before. The patient mentioned loss of appetite, weight loss for three months and low fever for two weeks. Materials and methods. Among the ophthalmological findings, the most important were panuveitis,...

Necrotizing herpetic retinopathy in kidney-transplanted patients on mycophenolate mofetil.

Acute necrotizing retinitis in a patient receiving immunosuppressive therapy.

Patients with impaired immunological defence mechanisms due to malignant invasive conditions such as the leukaemias and their associated cytotoxic drug therapy, or to the administration of immunosuppressive drugs, are particularly prone to infection with organisms usually thought of as benign under normal conditions. In particular the incidence of cytomegalic inclusion disease is increasing bot...