BACKGROUND Renal fungal bezoars are remarkably rare and mostly occur in immunodeficient patients. Only a small number of cases with immunocompetent patients have been published so far. The published treatment approaches comprised systemic antimycotic therapy and surgical or minimal invasive removal of the fungal balls. In some cases irrigation of the renal duct system with amphotericin B was pe...

Two hundred and forty rabbit eyes toere exposed to focused ultrasonic radiation at either 3.5 me. or 7 me. Circumscribed chorioretinal lesion and localized destruction of the ciliary: body could, be obtained without evidence of injury to other ocular tissues. The sound beam retrodisplaces detached retinas. These observations suggest possible uses of ultrasound in retinal detachment repair, ctjc...

We describe a case of progressive subretinal fibrosis and multifocal chorioretinitis along with its findings on both fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography. The progressive subretinal fibrosis syndrome is a severe subset of multifocal choroiditis. The clustering of lesions around the nerve optic head may mean that the disease is spread through the flow in and out of the eye around the op...

BACKGROUND To describe the characteristics of patients with syphilitic uveitis in northern China. METHODS A case series of 21 patients (33 eyes) diagnosed with syphilitic uveitis from 2011 to 2016 at a tertiary center in northern China was retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS Twenty-one patients (33 eyes) were diagnosed as syphilitic uveitis. Posterior segment involvement was found in 32 eyes ...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a DNA virus that mainly causes infectious mononucleosis. Ocular manifestations are rare and typically mild. Only a few cases of EBV involving the retina or the optic nerve have been reported. Herein, we report the case of a 67-year-old man with bilateral chorioretinitis and optic neuritis due to EBV. The patient had no previous ocular history and presented with decre...

Central nervous system lesions are common in HIV-infected patients. In the combination anti-retroviral therapy (ART) era, Toxoplasma reactivation has been observed only in patients with unrecognized HIV infection or refusing therapy. We present the case of 10-year-old girl with AIDS who initially presented with pneumonia. She was treated for pneumonia and thereafter started on ART as her CD4 co...

Ocular toxoplasmosis frequently presents as necrotizing retinochoroiditis and, less often, peripapillary chorioretinitis and/or papillitis. The progression from papillitis to has been rarely described. We report the case of a 52-year-old patient living in southern Brazil, who developed right eye and was treated with systemic corticosteroids (prednisone 0.6 mg/kg/day pulse therapy methylpredniso...

Leukocyte migration inhibition (LMI) by choroid, retina, and uveal tract antigens was studied in patients with active and quiescent chorioretinal disease. LMI by retina was more frequent in both groups of patients, occurring in 9 of 16 patients with active disease and in 8 to 15 patients with disease in remission. Choroid was tested in 15 patients with active inflammation and led to LMI in 7 of...