OCULAR COMPLICATIONS IN RELAPSING FEVER

Surgical interventions for late ocular complications of relapsing polychondritis

Purpose To report a case of surgical interventions for a patient with relapsing polychondritis who presented with late ocular complications. Observations A 44-year-old male was diagnosed to have relapsing polychondritis on the basis of recurrent acute auricular chondritis, deformity of the ear, saddle nose deformity and painful nasal chondritis, acute ocular inflammation with conjunctivitis, ...

Complications of pregnancy and transplacental transmission of relapsing-fever borreliosis.

Relapsing-fever borreliosis caused by Borrelia duttonii is a common cause of complications of pregnancy, miscarriage, and neonatal death in sub-Saharan Africa. We established a murine model of gestational relapsing fever infection for the study of the pathological development of these complications. We demonstrate that B. duttonii infection during pregnancy results in intrauterine growth retard...

Relapsing Fever in Seistan

To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?During the period February to May of this j'ear 4cases of relapsing fever were admitted to the Seistan Consulate Hospital. Diagnosis was confirmed by microscopic examination of the blood. The clinical description conformed closely to that of the Indian variety of the disease. One patient, however, a strong healthy man 28 years of age, develope...

Relapsing fever in Africa.

Relapsing Fever in Kashmir