Sympathetic ophthalmia in pediatric age group: Clinical features and challenges in management in a tertiary center in Southern India

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 367-372

  Kumar, Kshitiz ^a   Mathai, Annie ^a   Murthy, Somasheila I ^a   Jalali, Subhadra ^a   Sangwan, Virender ^a   Reddy Pappuru, Rajeev ^a   Pathangay, Avinash ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Exudative retinal detachment; Immunosuppression; Panuveitis; Pediatric; Sympathetic ophthalmia

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDIA; IRIDOCYCLITIS; LENS IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPATHETIC OPHTHALMIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITRECTOMY; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; DRUG COMBINATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE FUNDUS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; INCIDENCE; OPHTHALMIA, SYMPATHETIC; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CHILD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; OPHTHALMIA, SYMPATHETIC; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84907187540     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: 17445078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09273948.2013.841958     Document Type: Article

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