We report the first case of ocular infestation by Loa loa in Brazil. Loiasis is caused by infestation with Loa loa, a filarial parasite originally found in the rainforests of western and central Africa. It is transmitted by the bite of the fly Chrysops and has been recently described in other places other than Africa, in African immigrants or travellers. Our case is a 33 year-old woman from Cam...

AIMS To study the relative occurrence of uveitis (intraocular inflammation) and its causes in children and adolescents. METHODS Patients with uveitis examined and followed during a period of 10 years were categorised by age and sex. All underwent ocular examination and an individually tailored battery of laboratory tests. The intraocular manifestations were classified according to the anatomi...

Myiasis is an animal or human pathogenic condition initiated by parasitic dipterous fly larvae feeding in the host's necrotic or living tissue. Here we report a case of external ophthalmomyiasis caused by Lucilia sericata in a 78-yr-old with a vascular tumor of the retina and surgery history, from Bijar City of Kurdistan Province, Iran in 2015. Associated symptoms included right eye pain with m...

PURPOSE To present a case of massive orbital myiasis. CASE REPORT An 87-year-old debilitated woman suffering from left ocular pain of four days' duration presented with a severely necrotized left orbit and several attached live larvae. The upper and lower eyelids and the eyeball were completely destroyed. She had history of eyelid surgery in the same eye due to a skin lesion, apparently some ...

Toxocariasis is a parasitic infection caused by the roundworms Toxocara canis or Toxocara cati, mostly due to accidental ingestion of embryonated eggs. Clinical manifestations vary and are classified as visceral larva migrans or ocular larva migrans according to the organs affected. Central nervous system involvement is an unusual complication. Here, we report a case of multiple cerebral infarc...

Human thelaziasis is an emerging insect-borne zoonotic ocular parasitic infestation, occur more commonly in rural communities with poor living and low socioeconomic living, mainly affects the children old age people, where humans live close proximity animals. caused by both Thelazia callipaeda californiensis. T. lives under eye lids, nictitating membranes, orbit, conjunctival sac, lachrymal gla...

The term pseudotumour of the orbit is unfortunate, since it merely purports to describe a negative quality of a considerable number of diverse pathological conditions. Among ophthalmologists it is common practice to limit the term to those lesions which are of an idiopathic inflammatory nature (Blodi and Gass, 1967), whereas Birch-Hirschfeld, who introduced the term, included all non-neoplastic...