Bartonella henselae neuroretinitis in a 15-year-old girl
By Linda on Dec 22, 2009 in Infections
A 15-year-old girl being treated with imatinib for chronic myelogenous
leukemia (CML) presented with acute vision loss in her right eye
accompanied by swelling of the right side of her neck. On examination,
she was found to have disk and macular edema of the right eye.
Fine-needle aspiration and excisional biopsies of an enlarged
submandibular lymph node were negative for malignancy. Although initial
serologies were equivocal for Bartonella henselae, repeat serologies
performed 1 week later upon the appearance of a macular star were
positive. This is the first reported case of B. henselae in a patient
with CML.
PMID: 20006827 [PubMed – in process]
Bartonella henselae neuroretinitis in a 15-year-old girl with chronic
myelogenous leukemia.
Irshad FA, Gordon RA.
Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, New
Orleans, Louisiana.
