A 22-year-old Malay female presented with left eye floaters for 2 weeks, associated with temporal visual field defect and metamorphopsia for 3 days. She has a guinea pig and a hedgehog at home, but denied being bitten or scratched by them. Her visual acuity at presentation was 6/12 on the left eye and 6/6 on the right eye. Her left eye relative afferent pupillary defect was barely positive with...

Optic neuropathy due to cat scratch disease is a relatively infrequent occurrence associated with macular star formation and is characterized by sudden painless loss of vision mostly unilateral. Bartonella henselae is well recognized as the etiologic agent in cat scratch disease. Ocular complications of the disease occur in up to 10% of patients and include neuroretinitis. Ocular bartonelosis i...

We report optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings in a 48 years old man with Leber’s idiopathic stellate neuroretinitis. Ophthalmoscopy of the right eye revealed serous retinal detachment (SRD) and marked hard exudates in the papillomacular region. Imaging with OCT revealed an accumulation of fluid in the outer nuclear layer (ONL), the outer plexiform layer (OPL) and the inner nuclear layer...

Cat-scratch disease is a clinical syndrome that usually presents as a self-limiting illness featuring regional lymphadenopathy, fever, and small skin lesions in association with a cat scratch or bite. It is caused by the Gram-negative bacillus Bartonella henselae, which commonly affects children and young adults. Ocular bartonellosis is the most common atypical manifestation of cat-scratch dise...

BACKGROUND Involvement of the optic nerve is a rare complication of mumps infection. OBJECTIVES To report a case of bilateral neuroretinitis complicating a mumps infection and to review 5 previously reported cases. DESIGN Case report and literature review. SETTING Tertiary hospital. PATIENT A 7-year-old girl had sudden-onset blindness due to bilateral neuroretinitis. Approximately 3 wee...

OBJECTIVE To describe use of the scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) to identify live nematodes in patients with diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis. METHODS Infrared, red, and blue illumination (780, 633, and 488 nm, respectively) in an SLO were used to image and evaluate functional retinal status in patients with late-stage diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis. An examination t...

This case report describes a temporal relationship of unilateral neuroretinitis following the second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 (Pfizer) vaccine. A 16-year-old male mixed ethnicity presented with gradual loss vision and pain on eye movement in his left 12 days after Pfizer His visual acuity was counting fingers at half meter. There optic nerve head swelling macular exudates star-shaped pattern pe...

conclusions although toxoplasmosis nr is rare, it should be considered in the differential diagnoses of nr. case presentation a 13-year-old girl presented with painless subacute visual loss in her right eye for a week at khatam-al-anbia eye hospital in mashhad, iran. following comprehensive evaluation, a diagnosis of toxoplasmic nr was made. the nr favorably responded to classic anti-toxoplasmo...