Chorioretinal nocardiosis
- Horvath, Christina E.
- Brinkmann, Christian K.
- Ozdoba, Christoph
- Leib, Stephen
- Wolf, Sebastian
- Wolf-Schnurrbusch, Ute E.K.
Publication date
January 2009
DOI Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) ISSN
1935-1089Abstract
PURPOSE: Description of ocular involvement in a case of disseminated nocardiosis. METHODS: Case report of an immunosuppressed patient displaying a unilateral extramacular choroidal lesion presumed to be due to nocardia species. The patient received sulfonamide treatment for a culture-proven generalized nocardia infection. RESULTS: During follow-up, demarcation, resolution, and secondary development of macular pucker with vitreoretinal traction and macular edema was observed. Visual acuity of the affected eye recovered from initially 20/100 to 20/32 at the end of follow-up. CONCLUSION: Early and appropriate treatment of ocular endogenous nocardiosis can result in a favorable outcome
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