ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2017
Ocular tuberculosis in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia - A case series.
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- A systemic review of the utility of antituberculosis therapy for presumed tuberculous uveitis.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Isolated Unilateral Optic Neuritis Secondary to Presumed Ocular Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Adult.Cureus · 2026Article
- Challenges and Insights in the Diagnosis and Management of Orbital Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of 113 Cases.Cureus · 2024Review
- Out of sight, but not out of mind: Zoster sine herpete case study and survey of Zoster Eye Disease Study (ZEDS) Group.American journal of ophthalmology case reports · 2024Article
- Choroidal metastasis resembling hemangioma on angiogram as initial manifestation of lung adenocarcinoma.International journal of ophthalmology · 2022Article
- In the Eye of the Beholder: A Conjunctival Lesion in a Woman With Acute Myelogenous Leukemia.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionOcular tuberculosis (TB) encompasses a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations affecting different structures of the eye. It is caused by PURPOSE: To report the clinical profile of 34 ocular TB cases observed during 6 years period in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM).
methodA retrospective review of medical records from 34 patients diagnosed with ocular TB in HUSM from January 2011 until December 2016.
resultsThe mean age was 43 ± 14.6 years old. Both male and female affected in about 1:1 ratio. The majority of subjects were local Malays (91.2%). Risk factors included previous contact with pulmonary TB patients (38.2%), and patients with underlying diabetes mellitus (26.5%). Most patients showed normal chest radiography (79.4%). However they had positive Mantoux test (94.1%) and raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) value (58.8%). Uveitis was the most common ocular manifestation of ocular TB (70.6%) while the rare ocular manifestations included optic perineuritis and optic neuritis, orbital apex syndrome, orbital cellulitis, sclerokeratitis, corneal ulcer and conjunctival abscess. All patients responded well to anti-TB treatment, but visual outcome was variable.
conclusionsThis review shows the diverse entity of ocular TB spectrum in an endemic area. Good clinical response to anti-tuberculous therapy supported the presumed diagnosis of ocular TB in majority of the cases.
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