BACKGROUND Optic nerve transection and chorioretinitis sclopetaria may occur following blunt ocular trauma. However, simultaneous occurrence has not yet been reported. We report the first case of concomitant optic nerve transection and chorioretinitis sclopetaria. CASE PRESENTATION A 12-year-old boy with history of BB gun injury to his right eye was referred for loss of vision. His visual acu...

Chorioretinal involvement, frequently asymptomatic and self-limited, is common in patients with West Nile virus (WNV) infection associated with neurologic illness. A bilateral multifocal chorioretinitis, with typical clinical and fluorescein angiographic features, is the most common finding, but numerous other ocular manifestations can occur. Diabetes mellitus appears to be a potential risk fac...

A 63-year-old female with candidemia following necrotizing pancreatitis developed clinical signs of chorioretinitis and underwent the systemic administration of voriconazole, after which anterior chamber inflammation and multiple, white, fluffy, chorioretinal lesions, under 1mm in diameter, were gradually resolved and visual acuity improved. We report the first Korean case of candida chorioreti...

and in the mother affords very strong evidence in favour of this disease as the cause of the macular foci and thereby-through impaired vision-indirectly of the strabismus. Despite the pronounced concordance the strabismus must in these patients be considered as exogenously conditioned. We were able to find two reports in the literature of monozygotic twins suffering from toxoplasmosis and lesio...

purpose: to present a case of chorioretinitis sclopetaria with attached retina in spite of performing deep vitrectomy without retinopexy. patient and findings: a 10-year-old boy was reffered due to air-gun injury to the left eye. right eye had visual acuity of 20/16, mg-, and normal slit lamp examination and fundoscopy. in the left eye, visual acuity was count fingers at 50 cm, mg+++, anterior ...

CLINICAL CASE We describe the case of a man who, after a gunshot wound to the right facial region, exhibited chorioretinitis sclopetaria of the right eye and a contralateral homonymous hemianopsia. DISCUSSION Chorioretinitis sclopetaria is a rare entity resulting from an ocular injury caused by a bullet passing through the orbit. It is not common to find the condition associated with a damage...

To report a rare case of bilateral granulomatous chorioretinitis complicated by bilateral peripapillary choroidal neovascular membranes. This is the first reported case in Australia where intravitreal injections of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor ranibizumab were used to successfully treat choroidal neovascular membrane caused by granulomatous chorioretinitis. This is also the first rep...