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Case Report

Bilateral Uveitis in Rickettsial Disease

Thanuja G Pradeep*, Sindhu Satyanarayanan and Malavika Krishnaswamy
Department of Ophthalmology, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, India
Corresponding Author : Thanuja G. Pradeep
Department of Ophthalmology
MS Ramaiah Medical College
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Tel: 9611600888
E-mail: thanugopal@yahoo.co.in
Received October 27, 2014; Accepted January 03, 2015; Published January 07, 2015
Citation: Pradeep TG, Satyanarayanan S, Krishnaswamy M (2015) Bilateral Uveitis in Rickettsial Disease. J Infect Dis Ther 3:199. doi: 10.4172/2332-0877.1000199
Copyright: © 2015 Pradeep TG, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Abstract

We report a case of bilateral uveitis in a 52-year-old male patient who was admitted to the intensive care unit with fever and skin rashes. He was diagnosed to have rickettsial fever and treated with antibiotics. He was referred to the ophthalmologist for red eye, which on examination revealed an exudative membrane over the iris in both eyes. The patient also had associated vitritis. The patient responded to topical and oral steroids but had sectoral iris atrophy both eyes and poor visual recovery. Ocular manifestations are rare in rickettsial disease and easily overlooked by the treating physician. Early referral of these cases helps in initiation of appropriate treatment that will reduce the visual morbidity in these individuals.

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