Bilateral primary optic neuropathy as the presenting manifestation of tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient.


Journal

IDCases
ISSN: 2214-2509
Titre abrégé: IDCases
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101634540

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 16 12 2018
revised: 25 05 2019
accepted: 19 06 2019
entrez: 2 8 2019
pubmed: 2 8 2019
medline: 2 8 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Vision impairment is one of the devastating complications of central nervous system tuberculosis (CNS TB). Optic atrophy is a sequelae of various forms of CNS TB which, ultimately, is responsible for vision impairment. It is usually the secondary optic atrophy which occurs in CNS TB. In this case report, we present the story of an immunocompetent woman presenting as bilateral visual loss. She was found to have primary optic atrophy. Neuroimaging revealed features of chronic meningitis. Polymerase chain reaction test for Mycobacterium

Identifiants

pubmed: 31367519
doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00579
pii: S2214-2509(18)30232-4
pii: e00579
pmc: PMC6656685
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

e00579

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Auteurs

Santhosh Narayanan (S)

Dept of Cardiology, Govt. Medical College Kozhikode, India.

Divya Prakash (D)

Dept of Pathology, Govt. Medical College Kozhikode, India.

Gomathy Subramaniam (G)

Dept of Radiodiagnosis, Govt. Medical College Kozhikode, India.

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