Clinical Profile and Treatment Response of Patients with Ocular Inflammation due to Presumed Ocular Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Study | Zendy

Suma Elangovan | Zendy; Senthamarai Govindarajan | Zendy; Lakshmi Mayilvakanam | Zendy; N. Gunasekaran | Zendy

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Clinical Profile and Treatment Response of Patients with Ocular Inflammation due to Presumed Ocular Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Study

Author(s) -

Suma Elangovan,

Senthamarai Govindarajan,

Lakshmi Mayilvakanam,

N. Gunasekaran

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

turkish journal of ophthalmology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 2147-2661

pISSN - 1300-0659

DOI - 10.4274/tjo.galenos.2019.05874

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , uveitis , retrospective cohort study , surgery , population , presentation (obstetrics) , pediatrics , ophthalmology , pathology , environmental health

Ocular tuberculosis is an extrapulmonary tuberculous infection and has varying manifestations which pose a huge challenge to diagnosis and treatment. The purpose of this study is to describe the various clinical manifestations of ocular inflammations due to tuberculosis and to assess the response to treatment following antituberculous therapy (ATT) and corticosteroids in these patients.

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