Introduction: Bartonella henselae causes cat scratch disease (CSD), spread by a cat scratch or bite. Cats are its main reservoir. This sometimes results in optic neuritis or neuroretinitis. Objective: To review these conditions in Gipuzkoa (Spain), 2014-2019. Methods: A retrospective review of...
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Salicio-Bermejo, Y.; Cilla-Eguiluz, G.; Blanco-Esteban, A.; Martin-Peñaranda, T.; Grandioso-Vas, D.; Echeverría-Irigoyen, M. J.
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Elsevier Espana, S. L., Barcelona, Spain
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Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica, 2021, 39, 9, pp 451-453
Acute bacterial rhinosinusitis is a common illness in children and can lead to complications such as preseptal/orbital cellulitis, orbital/subdural/cerebral abscessation, osteomyelitis, meningitis, and optic neuritis with blindness. Primary bacterial infections leading to rhinosinusitis in cats is...
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Moghaddam, R.; Jaffey, J. A.; Hostnik, E. T.; Brower, A.; Wycislo, K. L.
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Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020, 6, March,
This study describes clinical and histopathological features, treatment, and outcome of cats diagnosed with ocular mycobacteriosis. Cases diagnosed from 2012 to 2017 were reviewed for (a) histopathological evidence of ocular (pyo)granulomatous inflammation containing acid-fast bacilli with...
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Stavinohova, R.; O'Halloran, C.; Newton, J. R.; Oliver, J. A. C.; Scurrell, E.; Gunn-Moore, D. A.
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Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, USA
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Veterinary Pathology, 2019, 56, 5, pp 749-760
Objective: To review the distribution of orbital and intracranial disease in canine and feline patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) following referral to a veterinary ophthalmologist and to correlate results of MRI with pathologic conditions including neoplasia, suspected optic ...
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Armour, M. D.; Broome, M.; Dell'Anna, G.; Blades, N. J.; Esson, D. W.
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Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK
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Veterinary Ophthalmology, 2011, 14, 4, pp 215-226
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Chen, T.; Persaud, A.
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Educational Concepts LLC, Tulsa, USA
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NAVC Clinician's Brief, 2018, No.March, pp 35-38
The term "optic neuritis" compromises all diseases of the optic nerve that cause primary demyelination and usually manifest themselves as a sudden visual field defect or total loss of vision in one or both eyes. As in man, the cause of optic neuritis is often difficult to determine in the living...
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W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, USA
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Veterinary Clinics of North America, Small Animal Practice, 2008, 38, 2, pp 403-415
Objectives: Report of prevalence and type of ocular disease in a captive population of nondomestic felids. Methods: Medical records of 202 cats from 1993 to 2018 were reviewed. Species, age at diagnosis, sex, ocular examination abnormalities, systemic/physical examination abnormalities, type of...
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Nguyen, L.; Boorstein, J.; Wynn, E. R.; Welihozkiy, A.; Baldwin, T.; Stine, J. M.; Michau, T. M.
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Wiley, Boston, USA
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Veterinary Ophthalmology, 2021, 25, 1, pp 31-43
PURPOSE. To test in mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) a strategy designed to treat patients at risk for axonal degeneration and persistent visual loss from optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis. METHODS. The authors cloned the human extracellular superoxide dismutase (ECSOD) ...
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Qi XiaoPing; Sun LiAng; Lewin, A. S.; Hauswirth, W. W.; Guy, J.
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Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc., Rockville, USA
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2007, 48, 12, pp 5360-5370
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (CoV) epidemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus - 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged from China. This virus causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since then, there have been anecdotal reports of ocular infection. The ocular...
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Seah, I.; Agrawal, R.
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Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, USA
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Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, 2020, 28, 3, pp 391-395
A 15-month-old spayed female ferret (Mustela putorius furo) presented for lethargy and weight loss of 2 weeks duration. Upon physical examination, a 2-mm-diameter focal area of opacity was noted in the left cornea. In addition, the ferret was quiet, in poor body condition, and dehydrated. A...
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Lindemann, D. M.; Eshar, D.; Schumacher, L. L.; Almes, K. M.; Rankin, A. J.
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Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK
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Veterinary Ophthalmology, 2016, 19, 2, pp 167-171