Sympathetic ophthalmia is a bilateral granulomatous panuveitis usually caused by penetrating injury presumably involving the uvea. Operative wounds are the second most common cause; more than half of these cases follow cataract operation.' Sympathetic ophthalmia has only rarely been reported after retinal detachment surgery. Winter2 in 1955 found only one such case in 95 cases of sympathetic op...

Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) is a rare bilateral, diffuse granulomatous panuveitis that occurs following penetrating trauma or intraocular surgery to one eye, the exciting eye. The fellow non-traumatized sympathizing eye also shows similar inflammatory response usually with mutton-fat KPs suggesting involvement of autoimmune response [1]. Though the time from ocular injury to onset of SO was sai...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to report a diagnostic dilemma in a patient with multifocal choroiditis. This is a case report study. FINDINGS A 68-year-old female presented with new onset of floaters in both eyes and diagnosed with bilateral panuveitis. Her visual acuity was 20/200 in both eyes. Slit-lamp examination showed 1+ anterior chamber cells in both eyes. Ophthalmoscopic e...

metronidazole, 1 g twice daily, his neurologic condition improved from being unable to walk (0/5 strength) to 4/5 lower-extremity strength. He was discharged for rehabilitation. Intravenous treatment with ceftriaxone was continued for 12 weeks. On follow-up examination 7 months after his initial visit to the ophthalmology clinic, best-corrected visual acuity measured 20/200. A 2 posterior subca...

INTRODUCTION Seasonal hyper-acute panuveitis (SHAPU) is a sight-threatening disease and its management is challenging. OBJECTIVE To study the profile and evaluate the visual outcome of the patients of clinically-diagnosed cases of SHAPU after treatment. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A retrospective interventional hospital-based study was carried out involving 21 subjects with clinically-diagnosed SH...

PURPOSE To report a case of ciliary body melanoma that masqueraded as chronic uveitis. METHODS A patient experienced persistent unilateral panuveitis and elevated intraocular pressure. Inflammation and pressure worsened after cataract extraction and lens implantation. Diagnostic vitrectomy was non-revealing. RESULTS Repeat vitrectomy and lens implant removal revealed a ciliary body mass, su...