OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of intraocular fluid analysis as a diagnostic aid for uveitis. METHODS: Twenty-eight samples (27 patients including 3 HIV-infected patients) with active (n=24) or non-active (n=4) uveitis were submitted to aqueous (AH; n=12) or vitreous humor (VH) analysis (n=16). All sam...
Abstract: Varicella in adults and immunocompromised patients can be severe. The clinical diagnosis of varicella has high accuracy and the history of disease has a high positive predictive value for protection. A significant portion of adults, however, cannot remember if they have had varicella, especiall...
A 58-year-old woman presented with rash over the left side of the face and intense acute uveitis. Following careful review of the symptoms and dilated fundus examination unilateral optic neuritis was discovered. The rash was typical of varicella zoster dermatitis. Patients presenting with herpes zoster o...
O vírus varicela-zóster (VVZ) é um alfa-herpesvírus do gênero varicellovirus cuja característica mais marcante é a capacidade de estabelecer latência em células dos gânglios da raiz dorsal de nervos sensitivos após infecção primária. Compreende a varicela, infecção primária - doença ex...
La varicela, primoinfección del HVZ, al curarse, dejaría acantonados los virus en estado de latencia, preferentemente en los ganglios raquídeos, que al reactivarse provocarían el herpes zoster (zona) o el varicella zoster atípico. La reactivación se produce preferentemente en pacientes con disminuc...
