title: [Vasculitis of retinal vessels in lung tuberculosis--a case report].
abstract: The authors examined during the period 2003-2004 in an eye practice 652 patients who were hospitalized due to active lung tuberculosis. All patients were treated with combination of 3-4 antituberculotic drugs and the examination was performed to observe the possible side effects of ethambutol to the optic nerve. The most interesting was the ocular finding in a young man treated due to acute lung tuberculosis in whom during the antituberculotic therapy with combination of 4 antituberculotics, the acute retinal vasculitis developed. This type of vasculitis is rare demonstration of ocular tuberculosis. The ocular finding resolved after starting the systemic corticoid therapy.
authors.affiliation: NUTPCH a HCH, ocné oddelenie, vysné Hágy, vedúci prim. fabi@zmail.sk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fabianová
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Porubská
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cepilová
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D031300:Retinal Vasculitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy