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Sympathetic ophthalmia associated with antecedent adherent leucoma--a rare association
1Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi.
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
|August 1, 1998
Abstract
Purpose:
To report a rare association of sympathetic ophthalmia with an antecedent adherent leucoma.
Method:
A 40-year-old patient with an adherent leucoma developed sympathetic ophthalmia in the fellow eye, 15 years after the occurrence of a perforated corneal ulcer.
Results:
Intravenous pulse dexamethasone therapy followed by tapering oral prednisolone led to complete resolution of the disease process in the sympathising eye.
Conclusion:
Patients with an adherent leucoma subsequent to a perforated corneal ulcer may remain at an increased risk of developing sympathetic ophthalmia during their lifetime.