myopia/fever

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between hay fever and refractive error in a representative sample of adolescents and adults in the United States. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 5,744 participants aged ≥12 years from the 2005 to 2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination

Abstract A 24-year-old woman suffered from blurred vision and periorbital edema with remittent fever. She was diagnosed as having systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), complicated with myopia and retinopathy and severe chemosis. Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), hemophagocytic syndrome, and liver

Various environmental factors have been implicated in the etiology of myopia. An attempt was made quantitatively to estimate some such environmental factors, as based on the presence or absence of a family history of myopia. Age range was 10-21 years. The 200 subjects included in the study were

Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a rodent-originating zoonotic disease caused by Puumala and Dobrava viruses, which belong to the genus Hantavirus. The most prominent ocular change in HFRS is transient myopia, which lasts for up to one week and is due to a forward movement of the

A 28-year old active sportswoman was admitted to hospital suffering from fever, menigeal irritation, acute myopia and progressive acute renal failure. Showing signs of polyserositis in combination with pulmonary granulomatous changes a collagenosis as well as an atypical pneumonia was excluded

Bilateral eyelid edema, chemosis, conjunctival injection and hemorrhages, shallowing of the anterior chamber with transitory myopia, and acute glaucoma were observed in three patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (nephropathia epidemica). One patient had anterior uveitis with posterior

This paper presents a case of ocular involvement during acute renal failure caused by hantavirus. A 34-year-old man suffered from sudden visual loss during acute onset fever with nausea and renal failure. The ophthalmologic examination showed myopia in both eyes and no signs of infection but

OBJECTIVE This study aims to report an unusual case of bilateral diffuse ophthalmoplegia with levator sparing, in a patient after an episode of Chikungunya fever. METHODS Case report of a five-year-old girl with inability to move both eyes along with decreased near vision. CONCLUSIONS Bilateral

Information on the sequential appearance, duration, and magnitude of clinical and laboratory parameters in hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is limited. Analysis of clinical and laboratory parameters obtained serially in 81 patients with HFRS, of whom 15 were infected with Dobrava virus

BACKGROUND Puumala virus infection (nephropathia epidemica) is a disease in the group of hemorrhagic fevers with renal syndrome causing ocular manifestations, e.g. transient myopia and changes in intraocular pressure. METHODS Comprehensive and repeated ophthalmic examinations of a previously healthy