Chorioretinal nocardiosis.
OBJECTIVE
Description of ocular involvement in a case of disseminated nocardiosis.


METHODS
Case report of an immunosuppressed patient displaying a unilateral extramacular choroidal lesion presumed to be due to nocardia species. The patient received sulfonamide treatment for a culture-proven generalized nocardia infection.


RESULTS
During follow-up, demarcation, resolution, and secondary development of macular pucker with vitreoretinal traction and macular edema was observed. Visual acuity of the affected eye recovered from initially 20/100 to 20/32 at the end of follow-up.


CONCLUSIONS
Early and appropriate treatment of ocular endogenous nocardiosis can result in a favorable outcome.
From *Klinik und Poliklinik für Augenheilkunde, Inselspital, University Bern; and †Institut für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Neuroradiologie and ‡Institut für Infektionskrankheiten, Universität Bern, Switzerland.
Christina E
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Horvath
Christian K
CK
Brinkmann
Christoph
C
Ozdoba
Stephen L
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Leib
Sebastian
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Wolf
Ute E K
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Wolf-Schnurrbusch