Alvarez-Suárez ML, Sánchez-Tabar L, Viescas-Fernández MJ, Fernández-Alvarez MA. [Posterior retinal hole secondary to a candida retinitis].
Arch Soc Esp Oftalmol 2005;
80:421-4. [PMID:
16059820 DOI:
10.4321/s0365-66912005000700008]
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Abstract
CASE REPORT
We describe the case of a 36-year-old man with a history of intravenous heroin use, who was HIV negative. Left ocular examination disclosed a focal candida retinitis in the posterior pole associated with vitritis and moderate iritis. Treatment with fluconazole inactived the chorio-retinal lesion and resolved the vitritis, but developed an inner limiting membrane contraction over the macula. Two years later, vitreous traction produced a retinal hole that needed argon laser photocoagulation.
DISCUSSION
Candida retinitis which penetrates into the vitreous cavity can produce retinal holes by vitreous traction over the lesion.
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