Tuberculous peripheral multifocal choroiditis

Pérez Alvarez, M.J.; González Guijarro, J.; Santos Gil, I.

Archivos de la Sociedad Espanola de Oftalmologia 78(3): 169-172

2003


ISSN/ISBN: 0365-6691
PMID: 12677495
Document Number: 558788
A healthy 57 year-old woman with past untreated pulmonary tuberculosis, disclosed a bilateral uveitic syndrome characte rized by iritis, vitreitis, multiple peripheral retinal punched-out lesions, and cystoid macular edema. Systemic evaluation was unremarkable except for a 30 mm tuberculin skin test. Relapses occurred after oral and periocular corticosteroids were interrupted, but the inflammation completely disappeared after a 6 month course of isoniazid, rifampicin and pyrazinamide. Intraocular tuberculosis should be considered as a treatable cause of peripheral multifocal choroiditis, after ruling out other etiologies.

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