Retinal vasculitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common systemic diseases in India. Intraocular TB is however, rare. Retinal vasculitis is a relatively rare manifestion of intraocular TB. We report a case of bilateral retinal vasculitis in a 19-year-old girl with abdominal tuberculosis. The patient responded well to anti-TB treatment along with a short course of low dose oral steroids. Vision in her right eye however remained compromised due to residual maculopathy. This is the first report of bilateral retinal vasculitis due to colonic TB.

Keywords

• Colonoscopy
• C reactive protein
• Eale′s disease
• retinal vasculitis
• serum ACE
• polymerase chain reaction