BACKGROUND Behçet's disease is a chronic, multisystemic disease of unknown etiology in which eye involvement is the most common cause of morbidity. In this study, we investigated the possible relation between serum homocysteine level and ocular involvement in patients with Behçet's disease. METHODS One hundred and fifty patients who fulfilled the criteria of the International Study Group for ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the natural history and visual prognosis of patients with branch retinal arterial occlusions secondary to multifocal retinitis. METHODS Cases were reviewed for seven patients who exhibited multifocal retinitis and branch retinal arterial occlusion. The average age of the patients was 27 years (age range, 14 to 19 years). RESULTS Six patients had systemic illnesses ass...

We present a case of acute endophthalmitis caused by Leuconostoc spp. following intravitreal bevacizumab injection. An 86-year-old immunocompetent female developed acute endophthalmitis after intravitreal injection of bevacizumab for neovascular age-related macular degeneration. The patient presented with pain, visual acuity of hand motions, hypopyon, and dense vitritis 96 h after treatment. Sh...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical characteristics and prognosis of diverse variants of herpetic uveitis with posterior segment involvement. METHODS/DESIGN Retrospective observational study of clinical, imaging, and laboratory data. RESULTS Twenty-five patients were classified as having typical acute retinal necrosis (ARN) and 13 patients as not having ARN (non-ARN). Age at symptom onset, s...

BACKGROUND Syphilis is a reemerging sexually transmitted disease that can lead to any type of intraocular inflammation. Prognosis of syphilitic uveitis after appropriate therapy is classically regarded as favorable. However, visual threatening complications may develop, rarely including rhegmatogenous/tractional retinal detachment (R/T RD) and proliferative vitreoretinopathy. FINDINGS We repo...

PURPOSE Diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis (DUSN), a form of posterior uveitis, is secondary to the presence of a highly motile nematode in the intraretinal or subretinal space. Herein, we report a case of DUSN that was successfully managed by an intravitreal injection of triamcinolone and laser therapy. CASE REPORT A middle-aged man with complaint of decreased vision and marked unila...

Introduction: Toxoplasma is a leading cause of posterior uveitis in immunocompetent patients manifesting as a focal posterior retinochoroiditis. It also causes systemic disease with potentially lethal complications. This obligate intracellular parasite has worldwide distribution with an estimated 1 billion people affected. 1 The typical Toxoplasma lesion consists of fluffy gray or white-yellow ...

AIM To assess the prevalence and patterns of ocular involvement in disseminated candidiasis in intensive care setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS Institutional review board approved case review of intensive care admissions. These were patients of septicemia who had undergone ocular examination as part of their initial assessment. The records of patients in whom Candida spp. was detected in two sit...

PURPOSE This report describes a rare ocular complication in a burned patient. CASE REPORT A 12-year-old girl was admitted to our burn center because of full thickness burn of 46% of her total body surface area. On the 23rd day of her stay, she complained of pain and decreased visual acuity in the right eye. Examination of this eye revealed panuveitis, dense vitritis, and a large chorioretinal...

We report a case of diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis in a young boy with no clinical visualization of nematode. The diagnosis was made based on clinical findings and detection of Toxocara immunoglobulin G by Western blot test. An 11-year-old Malay boy presented with progressive blurring of vision in the left eye for a duration of 1 year. It was associated with intermittent floaters. V...