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  • Title: [Sympathetic ophthalmia. Clinical and morphological study in 6 cases after penetrating injury and subsequent repeated vitreoretinal operations].
    Author: Khoroshilova-Maslova IP, Arkhipova LT, Shkvorchenko DO, Filatova IA, Leparskaia NL.
    Journal: Vestn Oftalmol; 2005; 121(5):38-41. PubMed ID: 16274065.
    Abstract:
    The paper outlines the clinical and morphological picture of 6 sympathizing eyes enucleated in 1996 to 2003 after vitrectomy and other endovitreal interventions into early injured or operated eyes. Resurgery was attempted early after wounds or a primary operation on the average following 20 days. Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) generally occurred in the posterior uveal tract as panuveitis or posterior uveitis and diagnosed in the late periods. Specific granulomatous inflammation in the uveal tract was observed in all eyes and the morphological feature of sympathizing eyes was the spread of an inflammatory process to the retina with the development of the latter's epithelioid-cell granulomas and adhesive chorioretinitis. The authors also discuss the possibility of additional antigenic stimulation accompanied by a progressive autoimmune process in the eye and by the generalization of a granulomatous inflammation, as well as the role of retinal minor lesions in this process as a source of additional autoantigens during repeated vitreoretinal operations. The latter, as the authors believe, are a risk factor of SO. In this connection, when repeated vutreoretinal interventions should be made in the presence of an uncompleted wound process in the eye and when they should be conducted under the conditions of active immunosuppressive therapy gain in great importance.
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