Sympathetic ophthalmia
Spared eye injury
Facts
:
Immune-mediated inflammation of one eye (the sympathetic eye) after a penetrating injury to the other eye
Due to antibody mediated, immune response to '
hidden ocular antigens
' from the penetrating eye injury
History / PE
:
Floating spots
Anterior uveitis
/ panuveitis
Papillary edema
Treatment
:
Prompt enucleation of the injured eye
Complications
:
Blindness
Differential Diagnosis
:
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome (same pathogenesis, sans injury)
Keywords
:
Autoimmune hypersensitivity to uveal/ocular antigens
August 5th 2010
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Ophthalmology
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