Initial Presentation of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis with Ocular Lesions
Ocular involvement with disseminated coccidiodal infection is rare. Even rarer is a patient presenting with symptomatic chorioretinitis first, followed weeks later by systemic symptoms of disseminated coccidioidomycosis. This highlights the need for physicians to have a heightened suspicion for test...
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| description | Ocular involvement with disseminated coccidiodal infection is rare. Even rarer is a patient presenting with symptomatic chorioretinitis first, followed weeks later by systemic symptoms of disseminated coccidioidomycosis. This highlights the need for physicians to have a heightened suspicion for testing for valley fever in patients living in endemic regions who present with ocular inflammation so that rapid and timely initiation of antifungal therapy may prevent loss of vision. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0bb93d4747404e799a62709c915695ca2025-02-03T06:46:08ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332020-01-01202010.1155/2020/13051931305193Initial Presentation of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis with Ocular LesionsEdward J. Quinlan0Veenu Gill1Retinal Consultants of Arizona, 13943 N 91st Ave, Peoria, AZ 85831, USAInfectious Disease Physician, Banner Thunderbird Medical Center, 5555 W. Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ 85306, USAOcular involvement with disseminated coccidiodal infection is rare. Even rarer is a patient presenting with symptomatic chorioretinitis first, followed weeks later by systemic symptoms of disseminated coccidioidomycosis. This highlights the need for physicians to have a heightened suspicion for testing for valley fever in patients living in endemic regions who present with ocular inflammation so that rapid and timely initiation of antifungal therapy may prevent loss of vision.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1305193 |
| spellingShingle | Edward J. Quinlan Veenu Gill Initial Presentation of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis with Ocular Lesions Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | Initial Presentation of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis with Ocular Lesions |
| title_full | Initial Presentation of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis with Ocular Lesions |
| title_fullStr | Initial Presentation of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis with Ocular Lesions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Initial Presentation of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis with Ocular Lesions |
| title_short | Initial Presentation of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis with Ocular Lesions |
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