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  1. Understanding the changes that occur in the choroid is of paramount importance in various uveitis entities. B-scan ultrasonography and indocyanine green angiography can be used to study choroid. Currently, spe...

    Authors: Padmamalini Mahendradas, Sumukh Madhu, Ankush Kawali, Indu Govindaraj, Poornachandra B Gowda, Anand Vinekar, Naren Shetty, Rohit Shetty and Bhujang K Shetty
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:18
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  2. The aim of this study was to identify the main features of a cohort of Caucasian patients with idiopathic (I) and systemic disease-associated (SDA) autoimmune uveitis (AU) who were followed up at a single tert...

    Authors: Marcella Prete, Silvana Guerriero, Rosanna Dammacco, Maria Celeste Fatone, Angelo Vacca, Francesco Dammacco and Vito Racanelli
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:17
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  3. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease is a systemic autoimmune disorder against melanocytes. Recent studies have identified multiple genetic factors that might be associated with the pathogenesis of VKH disease. ...

    Authors: Joanne YW Ng, Fiona OJ Luk, Timothy YY Lai and Chi-Pui Pang
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:20
    Content type: Review Published on:

  4. Silicone oil continues to be an important aid in retinal detachment surgery. We report a case in which disparate responses to silicone oil were noted in the conjunctiva and intraocularly. Intraocularly, the oi...

    Authors: Aubrey L Gilbert, Frederick A Jakobiec, James Chodosh and Dean Eliott
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:15
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  6. A 21-year-old female patient had chorioretinitis in the left eye which relapsed while being on anti-tubercular treatment and oral corticosteroids leading to blindness and the loss of the left eye.

    Authors: Manisha Agarwal, Vivek Jha and Jyotirmay Biswas
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:13
    Content type: Brief report Published on:

  7. Orbital tuberculosis (OTb) is rare and may be regarded as a manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. We report an interesting case series of six patients with varied presentations of orbital and adnexal t...

    Authors: Kalpana Babu, Moupia Mukhopadhyay, Soumya S Bhat and JT Chinmayee
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:12
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  8. Candida dubliniensis is a recently described opportunistic fungal pathogen that rarely infects the eye. Reported cases of C. dubliniensis endophthalmitis have been of endogenous etiology and demonstrated recovery...

    Authors: Brian Douglas McMillan, Gary James Miller and John Nguyen
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:11
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  9. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay can be a useful method for definitive diagnosis in paucibacillary infections such as ocular tuberculosis (TB). In this study, we have evaluated factors affecting PCR outco...

    Authors: Praveen Kumar Balne, Rohit Ramesh Modi, Nuzhat Choudhury, Neha Mohan, Manas Ranjan Barik, Tapas Ranjan Padhi, Savitri Sharma, Satya Ranjan Panigrahi and Soumyava Basu
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:10
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  10. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical significance of posterior choroidal thickness and vascular changes in the convalescent stage of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease (VKH). Macular spectral domain o...

    Authors: Hossein Nazari, Amirhossein Hariri, Zhihong Hu, Yanwei Ouyang, SiriniVas Sadda and Narsing A Rao
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:9
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  11. Sarcoidosis is an idiopathic, multi-system, granulomatous disease with well-described ocular manifestations. However, other uveitic etiologies can manifest in a similar fashion, and ocular disease may precede ...

    Authors: Kelly M Bui, Jose M Garcia-Gonzalez, Sarju S Patel, Amy Y Lin, Deepak P Edward and Debra A Goldstein
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:8
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  12. We report the fundus autofluorescence (FAF), spectral-domain optical coherence tomographic (SD-OCT), microperimetric, and multifocal electroretinographic (mfERG) findings before, during, and after successful t...

    Authors: Mariko Egawa, Yoshinori Mitamura, Yuki Hayashi, Kentaro Semba and Takeshi Naito
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:7
    Content type: Brief report Published on:

  13. Detection of choroidal inflammation in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease is still a challenge. Progression to sunset glow fundus has been observed despite apparent good clinical control of inflammation. Indoc...

    Authors: Viviane M Sakata, Felipe T da Silva, Carlos E Hirata, Walter Y Takahashi, Rogerio A Costa and Joyce H Yamamoto
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:6
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  14. The objective of this study was to evaluate the microbiologic spectrum and antimicrobial susceptibility of isolates in post-traumatic endophthalmitis and compare with our earlier published report. A retrospect...

    Authors: Animesh Jindal, Avinash Pathengay, Kopal Mithal, Subhadra Jalali, Annie Mathai, Rajeev Reddy Pappuru, Raja Narayanan, Jay Chhablani, Swapna R Motukupally, Savitri Sharma, Taraprasad Das and Harry W Flynn Jr
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:5
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  15. Snow banking is usually a term coined to describe the accumulation of vitreous exudates over the pars plana and the peripheral retina in pars planitis. Snow banking is very rare in tubercular intermediate uvei...

    Authors: Kalpana Babu and Soumya S Bhat
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:4
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  16. Ocular tuberculosis (TB) can affect nearly every ocular tissue, leading to a variety of vision-threatening clinical manifestations. The goal of this study is to estimate the degree, duration, and causes of vis...

    Authors: Soumyava Basu, Sirajum Monira, Rohit Ramesh Modi, Nuzhat Choudhury, Neha Mohan, Tapas Ranjan Padhi, Praveen Kumar Balne, Savitri Sharma and Satya Ranjan Panigrahi
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:3
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  17. We describe the spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) findings in three patients with acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis (ASPPC). The SD-OCT images demonstrate the pathologic ch...

    Authors: Bryn M Burkholder, Theresa G Leung, Trucian A Ostheimer, Nicholas J Butler, Jennifer E Thorne and James P Dunn
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:2
    Content type: Brief report Published on:

  18. Neonatal conjunctivitis or ophthalmia neonatorum (ON) is an acute bacterial conjunctivitis contracted by newborns during delivery. In non-industrialized countries, detection of the etiological agent is difficu...

    Authors: Isabel Alexandre, Nestor Cortes, Mar Justel, Itziar Fernández, Raul Ortíz de Lejarazu and J Carlos Pastor
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:1
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  19. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the microbiological spectrum and antimicrobial susceptibility in patients with scleral buckle infection. Medical records of all the patients diagnosed as buckle...

    Authors: Jay Chhablani, Sameera Nayak, Animesh Jindal, Swapna R Motukupally, Annie Mathai, Subhadra Jalali, Rajiv Reddy Pappuru, Savitri Sharma, Taraprasad Das, Harry W Flynn Jr. and Avinash Pathengay
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:67
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  20. Recent studies have shown that the recently identified organism Candida dubliniensis is less pathogenic than the more common Candida albicans. Due to its rare nature, C. dubliniensis has been previously reported ...

    Authors: Thomas P Moloney and Joseph Park
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:66
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  21. The aim of this study is to report a case of sympathetic ophthalmia with sensorineural hearing loss following penetrating trauma. This is an interventional case report. A 23-year-old male presented with bilate...

    Authors: Ramesh Venkatesh, Manisha Agarwal, Vidya Janaki Ramesh, Shalini Singh, Meha Kantha and Jyotirmay Biswas
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:65
    Content type: Brief report Published on:

  22. The purpose of this study was to describe comorbidities, healthcare costs, and resource utilization among patients with chronic non-infectious uveitis initiating corticosteroid, immunosuppressants, or biologics.

    Authors: David S Chu, Scott J Johnson, Usha G Mallya, Matthew R Davis, Rachael A Sorg and Mei Sheng Duh
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:64
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  23. The time courses of retinal and choroidal thickness changes in dengue fever-associated maculopathy are not known. We measured central macular thickness (CMT), parafoveal retinal thickness (PRT), and subfoveal ...

    Authors: Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Hidenori Takahashi, Mikiko Kanno, Yasuo Noda and Yujiro Fujino
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:63
    Content type: Brief report Published on:

  24. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibilities, and visual acuity outcome of acute-onset postoperative Gram-negative bacterial endophthalmitis cases resistant to both c...

    Authors: Animesh Jindal, Avinash Pathengay, Manav Khera, Subhadra Jalali, Annie Mathai, Rajeev Reddy Pappuru, Raja Narayanan, Savitri Sharma, Taraprasad Das and Harry W Flynn Jr
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:62
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  25. Macular edema is a common complication of uveitis and represents a therapeutic challenge, especially in children. Recently, intravitreal dexamethasone implants have been shown to decrease intraocular inflammat...

    Authors: Serge Bourgault, Maryam Aroichane, Leah A Wittenberg, Andréane Lavallée and Patrick E Ma
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:61
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  26. The purpose of the current study was to analyze risk factors, clinical features, and treatment outcomes in patients with endogenous fungal endophthalmitis with yeast and mold infections. For this retrospective...

    Authors: Jayanth Sridhar, Harry W Flynn Jr, Ajay E Kuriyan, Darlene Miller and Thomas Albini
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:60
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  27. Cases of patients with primary intraocular lymphoma (PIOL) were retrospectively analyzed to describe the longitudinal intra-retinal morphological changes in PIOL as visualized on images obtained by spectral do...

    Authors: Hyun Soo Jang, Yasir J Sepah, Raafay Sophie, Millena G Bittencourt, Daniel Ferraz, Mostafa Hanout, Hongting Liu, Diana V Do and Quan Dong Nguyen
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:59
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  28. Enhanced-depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT) provides high-resolution imaging of the choroid. Herein, we report multimodal imaging, including EDI-OCT, of a case of sarcoid choroidal granulomas.

    Authors: Yasha S Modi, Aliza Epstein, Swetangi Bhaleeya, J William Harbour and Thomas Albini
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:58
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  29. The aim of this study is to exclusively report the microbiological spectrum of lacrimal abscess and the antibiotic sensitivity patterns of the organisms. Retrospective interventional study on 112 eyes of 112 p...

    Authors: Mohammad Javed Ali, Swapna R Motukupally, Surbhi D Joshi and Milind N Naik
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:57
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  31. The aim of this study is to report two interesting cases of cytomegalovirus (CMV) anterior uveitis following topical prostaglandin analogue administration for glaucoma. Two retrospective case studies are prese...

    Authors: Kalpana Babu and Gowri Jaydev Murthy
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:55
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  32. We present a case of a patient initially presenting with multifocal choroiditis (MFC) in one eye. She subsequently developed lesions most consistent with punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) in the contralateral...

    Authors: Michelle V Carle, David S Boyer and Pouya N Dayani
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:54
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  33. Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease of unknown etiology affecting multiple organs. Earlier reports suggested that sarcoidosis was a disease of the developed world. However, recent reports suggest...

    Authors: Kalpana Babu
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:53
    Content type: Review Published on:

  34. Since the introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), AIDs related morbidity and mortality have declined. However, the advent of HAART brought the new problem of immune recovery inflammatory ...

    Authors: Supinda Leeamornsiri, Pitipol Choopong and Nattaporn Tesavibul
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:52
    Content type: Brief report Published on:

  35. The purpose of the current study was to report the microbiology, risk factors, and treatment outcomes in patients with delayed-onset endophthalmitis associated with corneal suture infections. For this retrospe...

    Authors: Christopher R Henry, Harry W Flynn Jr, Darlene Miller, Amy C Schefler, Richard K Forster and Eduardo C Alfonso
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:51
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  37. Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare bilateral granulomatous inflammation that follows accidental or surgical insult to the uvea of one eye. Onset of sympathetic ophthalmia can be insidious or acute, with recurren...

    Authors: Xi K Chu and Chi-Chao Chan
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:49
    Content type: Review Published on:

  38. The purpose of this study is to review the literature on the risk of malignancy in patients with inflammatory eye disease (IED) treated with systemic immunosuppressive (IS) therapy. Relevant databases in trans...

    Authors: William B Yates, Peter J McCluskey and Denis Wakefield
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:48
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. Collagen cross linking (CXL) of the cornea has been developed recently as a new treatment for multidrug-resistant infectious keratitis. The aim of this study is to summarize the previously published data and e...

    Authors: Jorge L Alio, Alessandro Abbouda, David Diaz Valle, Jose M Benitez del Castillo and Jose A Gegundez Fernandez
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:47
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  40. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the microbiological profile and treatment outcomes of vancomycin-resistant Gram-positive bacterial endophthalmitis. Medical records of all patients with Gram-positive b...

    Authors: Manav Khera, Avinash Pathengay, Animesh Jindal, Subhadra Jalali, Annie Mathai, Rajeev Reddy Pappuru, Nidhi Relhan, Taraprasad Das, Savitri Sharma and Harry W Flynn
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:46
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  42. Endogenous endophthalmitis secondary to Nocardia species is extremely rare but often portends a poor visual prognosis often owing to the advanced nature of disease at presentation and delay in diagnosis. Patients...

    Authors: Megan Scott, Sonia Mehta, Hassan T Rahman, Hans E Grossniklaus and Steven Yeh
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:44
    Content type: Brief report Published on:

  43. A number of medications have been associated with uveitis. This review highlights both well-established and recently reported systemic, topical, intraocular, and vaccine-associated causes of drug-induced uveit...

    Authors: Nikolas JS London, Sunir J Garg, Ramana S Moorthy and Emmett T Cunningham Jr
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:43
    Content type: Review Published on:

  44. The emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms among severe ocular infections is of grave concern. We describe the first reported case of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal endophthalmitis following ocular tra...

    Authors: Roxane J Hillier, Parnian Arjmand, Gabriel Rebick, Mario Ostrowski and Rajeev H Muni
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:42
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  45. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease and sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) are both autoimmune disorders targeting melanin-bearing cells, even though their etiologies are different. Both shared many ocular and systemi...

    Authors: Chiu-Tung Chuang, Po-Sian Huang, Shih-Chou Chen and Shwu-Jiuan Sheu
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:41
    Content type: Brief report Published on:

  48. The purpose of this study is to report the efficacy of azithromycin 1.5% eye drops in children with ocular rosacea and phlyctenular blepharokeratoconjunctivitis. This retrospective study from January 2009 to M...

    Authors: Serge Doan, Eric Gabison, Frédéric Chiambaretta, Melissa Touati and Isabelle Cochereau
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:38
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  49. A 50-year-old male was diagnosed to have a right eye sclerouveitis and left eye granulomatous anterior uveitis due to Hansen's disease. We are reporting the anterior segment optical coherence tomography (ASOCT...

    Authors: Padmamalini Mahendradas, Kavitha Avadhani, Sarika Ramachandran, Sahana Srinivas, Madhavi Naik and K Bhujang Shetty
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:36
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  50. We report the case of an 81-year-old woman with a history of radial keratotomy 9 years prior who developed endophthalmitis without preceding keratitis 4 days after uneventful photorefractive keratectomy surger...

    Authors: Peter A Karth and John W Karth
    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:31
    Content type: Brief report Published on:
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