Setting: Medical Retina service, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. London, UK. Purpose: To describe a CMV retinitis in a patient with long standing inmunosuppresive treatment after liver transplant, and the therapeutic challenges of this case. We report a 74 year old man with previous liver transplant 20 years ago due to a Autoinmune Hepatitis who attended eye casualty complaining of floaters and blurred vision in his left eye....
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Posted by Anisha Seth, Neha Goel, Supriya Bhatta, Anika Gupta, Usha K. Raina and Basudeb Ghosh on Oct 10, 2013 in CMV
Poster Anisha Seth CMV retinitis generally occurs as an opportunistic infection in HIV patients but rarely occurs in other immune-compromised conditions. We describe a patient with NHL with bilateral CMV retinitis, who was treated with intravenous ganciclovir and eventually developed cystoid macular edema (CME) due to IRU. A 52-year-old woman presented with decrease in vision in both eyes for 3 days. Patient was a known case of NHL with...
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