Role of the mantoux test and treatment with antitubercular therapy in a South Indian patient population of presumed intraocular tuberculosis.
OBJECTIVE
To assess the role of mantoux test and ATT in presumed intraocular tuberculosis in South India.


METHODS
Retrospective study of 51 records of patients with recurrent uveitis with a documented positive mantoux test and a minimum of 1 year followup from the time of initiation of ATT between January 1997 and May 2008. The main outcome measure was the recurrence of inflammation after 1 year of starting ATT.


RESULTS
There was a significant reduction in the number of recurrences of uveitis post ATT (.000).


CONCLUSIONS
There is a definite role of ATT in latent TB with uveitis.
Babu
Kalpana
K
Vittala International Institute of Ophthalmology & Prabha Eye clinic and Research center, Bangalore, India. kb_7375@yahoo.co.in
Satish
Vidya
V
Prakash
Om
O
Subbakrishna
D K
DK
Murthy
Krishna R
KR
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D055985:Latent Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014374:Tuberculin Test / Q000592:standards*; D014392:Tuberculosis, Ocular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014605:Uveitis / Q000382:microbiology; D055815:Young Adult
D000995:Antitubercular Agents