title: OCULAR AND OSTEOARTICULAR TUBERCULOSIS IN A YOUNG PATIENT. CASE REPORT.
abstract: METHODS
  A young healthy patient, health-care worker in a state hospital, presented in the eye department complaining of pain and blurred vision in the left eye for approx. 2 weeks. Examination revealed a VA of 12/20 in the left eye, an interstitial keratitis, some signs of vitreal inflammation and two chorioretinal mass lesions (at echography appearing cystic) in the affected eye. She also mentioned a chronic pain in the right wrist. No systemic association was found. Based on the orthopaedic examination, biopsy, and surgical intervention, a strong suspicion of ocular tuberculosis was made and the patient was advised to start tuberculostatic treatment for 12 months and ocular steroidian treatment for 4 months. The ocular manifestations regressed totally after 3 months of treatment, the VA of the left eye improving at 20/ 20.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Tuberculosis can present many manifestations, with multi systemic involvement. Ocular tuberculosis is a difficult diagnosis and thus requires thorough multi-disciplinary investigations.
authors.forename: Dragosloveanu
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Serban
authors.forename: Christiana
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Celea
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Celea
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001174:Arthrodesis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014392:Tuberculosis, Ocular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy*; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy*; D014953:Wrist / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents