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Volume 29 (11) * November 1998 * Case Reports (abstract)

Cytomegalovirus Iritis

Lingyun Cheng, MD; Narsing A. Rao, MD; Kelly S. Keefe, MD; Cesar P. Avila, Jr, MD; J. Christopher Macdonald, MD; William R. Freeman, MD

ABSTRACT

We describe a case of focal cytomegalovirus iritis in a patient with acquired imunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) who had CMV retinitis. The autopsy showed histologic evidence of focal iritis in the left eye. This iritis was characterized by infiltration of acute inflammatory cells mixed with cytomegalic cells, which was confirmed by CMV–specific immunohistochemical staining. The case suggested that cyto-megalovirus could be a direct causative agent of infectious iritis in AIDS patients. [Ophthlamic Surg Lasers 1998;29:930–932.]

AUTHORS

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Shiley Eye Center, University of California, San Diego (LC, CPA, JCM, WRF), the Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California School of Medicine (NAR), Los Angeles, and the Department of Ophthalmology, Naval Medical Center (KSK), San Diego, CA.

Accepted for publication June 5, 1998.

Supported by NIH grant EYO 7366 (WRF).

Request reprints from William R. Freeman, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Shiley Eye Center, University of California, San Diego, 9415 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0946.

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