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OPHTHALMIC IMAGE
Year : 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 9  |  Page : 1969

Dirofilariasis presenting as scleritis: A report of two cases


1 Department of Ophthalmology, Kasturba Medical College-Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India
2 Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College-Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India
3 Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College-Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Date of Web Publication20-Aug-2020

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Yogish Subraya Kamath
Department of Ophthalmology, Kasturba Medical College-Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Madhav Nagar, Manipal - 576 104, Udupi, Karnataka
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_697_20

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Kamath YS, Thomas L, Sarpangala S, Simha R, Khanna V, Kudva R. Dirofilariasis presenting as scleritis: A report of two cases. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:1969

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Kamath YS, Thomas L, Sarpangala S, Simha R, Khanna V, Kudva R. Dirofilariasis presenting as scleritis: A report of two cases. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 29];68:1969. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2020/68/9/1969/292586



Scleral involvement in ocular dirofilariasis, a mosquito-borne zoonosis, is rare.[1],[2] We report two biopsy-proven cases [Figure 1]b and [Figure 1]d from coastal Karnataka, presenting clinically as anterior-nodular and posterior scleritis, respectively.
Figure 1: (a) Congested, superiorly located, scleral nodule [Case 1]; (b) Histopathological specimen (H and E × 200) showing cut section of worm with uterus showing microfilariae and muscular lining suggestive of Dirofilaria sp. [Case 1] (c) Coiled worm migrated anteriorly to the sutenon space [Case 2] (d) Histopathological specimen (H and E × 400) depicting muscular cuticle suggestive of Dirofilaria sp. [Case 2]

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Case 1: A 13-year-old-girl presented with a congested superior scleral nodule in her left eye, [Figure 1]a preceded by severe itching of her scalp for a week. After an ultrasound biomicroscopy to ascertain depth of lesion an excision biopsy was done.

Case-2: A 55-year-old-lady, with deep-set pain in right eye and a T-sign on B-scan was started on systemic steroids after ruling out other causes. After 3 days, a coiled live worm had migrated to the superior subtenons space [Figure 1]c.

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Kalogeropoulos CD, Stefaniotou MI, Gorgoli KE, Papadopoulou CV, Pappa CN, Paschidis CA. Ocular dirofilariasis: A case series of 8 patients. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2014;21:312-6.  Back to cited text no. 1
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Sangit VA, Haldipurkar SS. Subconjunctival dirofilariasis mimicking scleritis:First report from Western India. Indian J Ophthalmol 2012;60:76-7.  Back to cited text no. 2
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