Diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis.
In December 1980, a 26-year-old black man came to the Washington Hospital Center Eye Clinic with a unilateral decrease in visual acuity, vitreous inflammation, optic disk pallor, and a degenerated retinal pigment epithelium. A motile subretinal worm was subsequently found. Unlike an earlier series of 18 patients with diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis reported by other authors, this patient exhibited eosinophilia and a highly positive ELISA for Toxocara.
D000328:Adult; D001196:Ascariasis; D004596:Electroretinography; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000150:complications; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012173:Retinitis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D014120:Toxocariasis; D014792:Visual Acuity