Ocular Whipple Disease: Report of Three Cases.
Ocul Immunol Inflamm
; 27(7): 1117-1120, 2019.
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Purpose: To emphasize the different manifestations of ocular involvement in Whipple disease with challenge in establishing the diagnosis as clinical, laboratory, and histological features could mimic other uveitis entities. Methods: Case reports of three patients. Results: The first patient was an African male suffering from a chronic bilateral keratoconjunctitivitis that was initially misdiagnosed as a chronic allergic conjunctivitis. The second patient was an Italian female who presented with bilateral vitritis, whereas the third patient was an Italian male suffering from a chronic bilateral panuveitis. The diagnosis of ocular Whipple in the first and third case was made by a positive T. whipplei PCR from the ocular specimen, and the second patient had detection of T. whipplei from extraocular sites. Conclusions: Whipple disease can have protean manifestations in the eye including an isolated ocular surface involvement manifested as keratitis.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Uveítis
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Infecciones Bacterianas del Ojo
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Queratoconjuntivitis
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Enfermedad de Whipple
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ocul Immunol Inflamm
Asunto de la revista:
ALERGIA E IMUNOLOGIA
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OFTALMOLOGIA
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Italia
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido