Abstract

SIGLER VILLANUEVA, Aldo; ROMAN GONZALEZ, Ceferino  and  DIAZ LUIS, Jackeline. Sympathetic ophthalmia: Apropos of a case. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 1999, vol.12, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3070.

A 65-year-old patient who underwent an intracapsular extraction of the crystalline lens of the left eye without accidents and 3 months later began to suffer from bilateral papillary stasis was presented. The clinical and neurological examination made was negative. The patient was given 80 mg of prednisona daily, and after 2 months he developed bilateral panuveitis. It was decided to extract the crystalline lens due to pathological cataract in the right eye and to administer 7 mg/kg of cyclosporine twice a day and 10 mg of prednisone during 2 months. The afecction dissapeared as a result of the treatment. It remains a visual scuity of 0,1 in the right eye and of counting fingers in the left eye. There has been no relapse after a 6-year follow-up.The patient is doing well in his familial enviroment

Keywords : OPHTHALMIA; SYMPATHETIC; UVEITIS; CATARACT [therapy]; PREDNISONA [therapeutic use]; CYCLOSPORINE [therapeutic use].

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