title: Macular hole: a rare complication of ocular bartonellosis.
abstract: A 37-year-old woman presented with an anterior optic neuropathy related to Bartonella henselae. Twenty-nine days after symptom onset, a partial thickness macular hole developed in the involved eye. Fundus photography and optical coherence tomography confirmed the conversion to a full-thickness macular hole in 2 months. Macular hole as a complication of cat scratch disease is a rare entity, with 2 prior reported cases in children. The development of a macular hole following cat scratch disease can appear without the clinical picture of multiple white chorioretinal lesions, macular star, or vitritis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. altermanm@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Michael Adam
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Alterman
authors.forename: Blair Katherine
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: Eric Robert
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Eggenberger
authors.forename: David Irwin
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Kaufman
mesh_terms: D001474:Bartonella Infections / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D012167:Retinal Perforations / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence