Chorioretinal nocardiosis

Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2009 Summer;3(3):263-5. doi: 10.1097/ICB.0b013e31817376eb.

Abstract

Purpose: Description of ocular involvement in a case of disseminated nocardiosis.

Methods: Case report of an immunosuppressed patient displaying a unilateral extramacular choroidal lesion presumed to be due to nocardia species. The patient received sulfonamide treatment for a culture-proven generalized nocardia infection.

Results: During follow-up, demarcation, resolution, and secondary development of macular pucker with vitreoretinal traction and macular edema was observed. Visual acuity of the affected eye recovered from initially 20/100 to 20/32 at the end of follow-up.

Conclusion: Early and appropriate treatment of ocular endogenous nocardiosis can result in a favorable outcome.