1. Panuveitis with disc edema after dengue fever: A rare presentation.
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Annamalai, Radha and Suresh, Kalpana
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TREATMENT of eye diseases , *DENGUE ,DIAGNOSIS of eye diseases - Abstract
We report a case of a 47 year old male who presented with panuveitis and disc oedema two weeks after an episode of dengue fever. He had complaints of headache with pain and defective vision in his right eye that had developed during his recovery from dengue fever. We treated him with topical steroid drops and subtenon steroid injections along with atropine eye drops. Oral prednisolone was started after 1 week on his review visit following which his symptoms resolved and vision improved. This case is being presented as panuveitis with disc oedema is a rare complication of dengue fever and also because the patient responded well to medical management with restoration of his vision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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