Ligneous conjunctivitis in a girl with severe type I plasminogen deficiency
| Autor: | Volker Schuster, Wolfgang E. Lieb, Petra Zeitler, Janine Kraft |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Conjunctiva medicine.disease_cause Eye Infections Bacterial Pneumococcal Infections Diagnosis Differential Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Conjunctivitis Bacterial Ligneous conjunctivitis Streptococcus pneumoniae Medicine Humans Infusions Intravenous business.industry Infant Plasminogen Eye infection medicine.disease Conjunctivitis Prognosis Dermatology Sensory Systems Peptide Fragments Surgery Ophthalmology medicine.anatomical_structure Superinfection Etiology Female Differential diagnosis Complication business |
| Zdroj: | Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie. 238(9) |
| ISSN: | 0721-832X |
| Popis: | Background: Ligneous conjunctivitis is a rare form of chronic recurrent pseudomembranous disease and may be associated with systemic membranous pathological changes. Recently ligneous conjunctivitis has been linked to severe type I plasminogen deficiency. We report on a patient with plasminogen deficiency and severe bilateral ligneous conjunctivitis. A new treatment approach and its outcome in this patient are described. Case report:We present the case of a 9-month-old Turkish girl with massive swelling of the eyelids and hard white pseudomembranes on both lids. The conjunctival smear was positive for Streptococcus pneumoniae. The clinical diagnosis was: ligneous conjunctivitis with superinfection. Histological investigation showed fibrin as major component of the pseudomembranes. The coagulation analyses revealed decreased plasminogen activity ( |
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