Background: To report a case of paediatric precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) presenting as uveitis masquerade syndrome (UMS).
 Case presentation: A 3-year-old girl with neutropenic sepsis presented poor fixation and right preferential gaze. Vision was light perception counting fingers in OD OS bilateral panuveitis, Roth spots, retinal haemorrhages, exudates. Vitreous bio...

purpose: to evaluate the role of active uveitis on refractive errors changes. methods: a cohort single group study was conducted on patients with acute or recurrent uveitis. cyclorefraction was performed in both phases of active and quiescent. sphere, cylinder and sphere equivalent power were compared in active and quiescent phases and analyzed statistically. results: sixty-six patients (eighty...

Syphilis, a disease that in the past was associated with significant morbidity and lethality rates, has resurged in recent years principally as a consequence of changes in risk behavior. An epidemiological group that is commonly affected is the HIV-infected population. The characteristics of the disease and its progression may differ in these patients. The present report describes a case of an ...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to determine the incidence of luetic uveitis in the last seven years at our uveitis center and to describe the characteristics and the role of uveitis in the diagnosis of syphilitic infection with or without unknown HIV infection. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed syphilitic uveitis in patients observed at our center between 2004 and 2010. The diagnosis was ...

Treatment options for symptomatic subluxated or dislocated IOLs include observation; and repositioning, removal, or exchange of the IOL. We describe a surgical technique of trans-scleral suture fixation for subluxated bag-IOL complex. A 29 year old male; known case of bilateral recurrent tubercular panuveitis underwent left eye phacoemulsification with three piece hydrophobic acrylic IOL implan...

Mr. C, a 21-year old male, who had painful oral and genital ulceration for two years, came to us with a left blind eye due to panuveitis, generalised body swelling and painful abdominal distention of 1 week duration. He was diagnosed to be having Behcet's disease with pathergy test confirmation. He was anicteric. His cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological examinations were normal. He had ...

Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) disease is a systemic disorder with typical bilateral granulomatous panuveitis and variable degrees of systemic features, including meningismus, vitiligo, poliosis, and dysacusis. The exact pathogenesis remains unknown, and a theory of autoimmune response against certain antigenic component of melanocytes has been suggested [1]. Diagnosis is mainly based on clinical f...