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The doctors were very upset about the bandage and talked of sympathetic ophthalmia.
Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare disease which results from the isolation of the eye from the systemic immune system.
In Khwarazm Ilyasa was stricken with sympathetic ophthalmia and he soon died.
As for the left eye, there was little doubt that it too was gone since the blow had been so hard as to cause sympathetic ophthalmia.
In his prize-winning book, De Iritide (1835), he made contributions involving investigations of iritis and sympathetic ophthalmia.
James Thurber's adult blindness was also diagnosed as sympathetic ophthalmia deriving from the loss of an eye when he was six years old.
Many of these cases were probably due to sympathetic ophthalmia, but some were clearly VKH cases.
In 1909 he was awarded the Graefe Medal by the German Ophthalmological Society for his research of sympathetic ophthalmia.
Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) is a bilateral diffuse granulomatous uveitis (a kind of inflammation) of both eyes following trauma to one eye.
See uveitis, choroiditis, iritis, Iridocyclitis, anterior uveitis, sympathetic ophthalmia, uveal melanoma.
However, this procedure is extremely rare, and current reports indicate that only one soldier in OIF has undergone enucleation in a tertiary care facility to prevent sympathetic ophthalmia.
A rare disease called sympathetic ophthalmia may represent 'cross-reaction' between the uveal and retinal antigens (i.e., the body's inability to distinguish between them, with resulting misdirected inflammatory reactions).
The nature of isolation of immunologically privileged sites from the rest of the body's immune system can cause them to become targets of autoimmune diseases or conditions, including sympathetic ophthalmia in the eye.
Schirmer provided a comprehensive description involving the pathology of sympathetic ophthalmia, a detailed study of rosacea keratitis, and extensive research concerning the physiology and anatomy of the eye's lacrimal apparatus.
In the event that a victim of globe penetrating trauma cannot perceive any light within two weeks of surgical intervention, the ophthalmologist may choose to enucleate as a preventative measure against sympathetic ophthalmia.
The descriptions of sympathetic ophthalmia can be found in Greek texts, modern understanding of SO derives from the works of William MacKenzie, who characterized and named the disease sympathetic ophthalmitis.
Sympathetic ophthalmia is currently thought to be an autoimmune inflammatory response toward ocular antigens, specifically a delayed hypersensitivity to melanin-containing structures from the outer segments of the photoreceptor layer of the retina.
Triamcinolone is used to treat several different medical conditions, such as eczema, psoriasis, arthritis, allergies, ulcerative colitis, lupus, sympathetic ophthalmia, temporal arteritis, uveitis, ocular inflammation, Urushiol-induced contact dermatitis, visualization during vitrectomy and the prevention of asthma attacks.