Journal Reviews

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Ocular manifestations of Whipple’s disease

2 February 2024 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | Granulomatous uveitis, Whipple’s disease, infectious uveitis, ocular infection, tropheryma whipplei

In this retrospective review of 217 patients with Whipple’s disease (WD), the authors reviewed the presentations of those with ocular manifestations. Ocular signs of WD are under recognised, frequently resulting in misdiagnosis and mismanagement. Mayo Data Explorer, a Mayo Clinic...

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Clinical features of ocular syphilis

7 December 2020 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | HIV, infectious uveitis, posterior uveitis, syphilis

The study looked at 24 patients (20 males, four females) with serological evidence of syphilitic infection who presented to a tertiary ophthalmic centre. Ocular involvement was the first manifestation of syphilitic disease in 96% and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) seropositivity...

Three years of experience with quantiferon-TB Gold Testing in patients with uveitis

1 April 2015 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | Epidemiology, gamma interferon release essay, infectious uveitis, quantiferon, tuberculosis

Quantiferon-TB Gold is a new alternative to the tuberculin skin test that utilises synthetic peptides representing M. tuberculosis antigens ESAT-6, CFP-10, TB7.7 and upon incubation with whole blood IFN-γ is released from pre-sensitised T cells and can be measured by...