Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Jan 2014)

Bilateral intraocular dirofilariasis

  • Viney Gupta,
  • Preeti Sankaran,
  • Mohanraj,
  • Jyotish Chandra Samantaray,
  • Vimla Menon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.116252
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 62, no. 3
pp. 357 – 358

Abstract

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Ocular dirofilariasis mostly presents as a subconjunctival or eyelid lesion. [1] Intraocular dirofilarial infestation is rare. [2],[3] We report a case of a young woman who was accidentally detected to have a live motile worm in the anterior segment in one eye and a cystic lesion on the optic disc in the other eye. To our knowledge, bilateral intraocular dirofilariasis has never been reported.

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