1. Bilateral acute angle closure in a patient with dengue fever: a case report
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José Ángel Enrique Barletta, Nicolás Damián Levaggi, and Agustín Nicolás Lucas
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Relatos de casos ,Dengue/complicações ,business.industry ,Acute angle ,Ultrasound biomicroscopy ,General Medicine ,Plateau iris configuration ,medicine.disease ,Humanos ,Dengue fever ,03 medical and health sciences ,Ophthalmology ,0302 clinical medicine ,lcsh:Ophthalmology ,lcsh:RE1-994 ,Glaucoma de ângulo fechado/etiologia ,Female patient ,030221 ophthalmology & optometry ,medicine ,Ultrasonografia ,business - Abstract
We report the case of a 46-year-old female patient who presented with bilateral acute angle closure during the course of dengue infection. Dengue diagnosis was confirmed by serological tests. The patient had plateau iris configuration identified by ultrasound biomicroscopy. This is the second reported case with this condition during dengue fever and the first to describe the characteristics of the angle.
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- 2017
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