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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU 2015; 05(04): 080-082
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1703940
Case Report

Sight threatening to life threatening parainfectious optic neuritis

Sowmya V.
1   Senior Resident, Department of Ophthalmology, Father Muller Medical College, Kankanady, Mangalore
,
Vijna B. Kamath
2   Post graduate, Department of Ophthalmology, Father Muller Medical College, Kankanady, Mangalore
,
Nelly E. P. Nazareth
3   Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Father Muller Medical College, Kankanady, Mangalore
,
F. E. A. Rodrigues
4   Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Father Muller Medical College, Kankanady, Mangalore
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Abstract

Optic neuritis is uncommon in children and is often bilateral unlike that in adults. It is often associated with systemic diseases like mumps, measles, chicken pox, pertussis, viral encephalitis and also following immunization. We report a series of 3 consecutive paediatric cases of bilateral optic neuritis which presented to us over a period of 6 months and were followed up for 1 year. Two patients responded to steroids with a normal ophthalmic and MRI examination at the end of one year. One patient expired following development of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis.

Keywords

optic neuritis - para- infectious diseases - acute disseminated encephalomyelitis


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22 April 2020

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