Open AccessBilateral intraocular dirofilariasis
Author(s) -
Viney Gupta,
P Sankaran,
Mohanraj,
Jyotish Chandra Samantaray,
Vimla Me
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of ophthalmology/indian journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1998-3689
pISSN - 0301-4738
DOI - 10.4103/0301-4738.116252
Subject(s) - medicine , dirofilariasis , lesion , eyelid , ophthalmology , pathology
Ocular dirofilariasis mostly presents as a subconjunctival or eyelid lesion. Intraocular dirofilarial infestation is rare. We report a case of a young woman who was accidentally detected to have a live motile worm in the anterior segment in one eye and a cystic lesion on the optic disc in the other eye. To our knowledge, bilateral intraocular dirofilariasis has never been reported.