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ArticleTherapeutic advances in infectious disease

HTLV-1 uveitis in Colombia, an underrecognized complication of a hitherto neglected condition: a case series.

Wilmer Villamil-Gomez, Jaime R Torres, Juan Rojas-Hernández, Torés Jose Reston, Jairo Vergara-Corena, Patricia Salgado, Jorge Viloria-Ruiz, Alvaro Castro, Andrés Mauricio Cabrera Lasso, Eduardo Gotuzzo

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Article in Therapeutic advances in infectious disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Wilmer Villamil-GomezCentro de Investigación en Ciencias de la Vida, Grupo de expertos Clinicos , Secretaria de salud de Barranquilla, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla, Colombia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5492-3455
Jaime R TorresInfectious Diseases Section, Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
Juan Rojas-HernándezGRINPED Research Group, Universidad Libre Seccional Cali, Cali, Colombia.
Torés Jose RestonDirección Científica, Clinica Oftalmologica de la Costa, Sincelejo, Colombia.
Jairo Vergara-CorenaDepartamento de Medicina Interna, Universidad de Sucre, Sincelejo, Colombia.
Patricia SalgadoInfectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Colombia.
Jorge Viloria-RuizFacultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sucre, Sincelejo, Colombia.
Alvaro CastroDepartamento de Patología, Universidad de Sucre, Sincelejo, Colombia.
Andrés Mauricio Cabrera LassoInfectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Colombia.
Eduardo GotuzzoUniversidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
University of Sucre · COHospital Universitario de Sincelejo · COCentral University of Venezuela · VEUniversidad Libre de Colombia · COUniversidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia · PEUniversidad Simón Bolívar · CO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three Colombian patients with chronic HTLV-1 infection and severe intermediate and/or posterior uveitis are described. In one case, retinal ablation was necessary due to extensive peripheral degeneration, while the other two were successfully managed with local anti-inflammatory therapy. Gradual resolution of ocular findings was observed in all three patients on follow-up. Uveitis is a rarely recognized late complication of this infection, which represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians in endemic countries. The real extension of HTLV-1 prevalence in Colombia and the frequency of its ophthalmologic complications remain to be determined.

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A report of three cases in ColombiaHTLV-1posterior uveitis

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