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Query: UMLS:C0019270 (hernia)
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Between 1992-1996 were treated ten cases with sympathetic ophthalmia, representing 0.16% from all hospitalized patients, in Ophthalmological Clinic from Craiova. The disease appeared after corneo-scleral penetrating wounds with membranes hernia at four cases; three from them was complications after cataract surgery and required long treatments; other two patients had glaucoma with closed angle in irreversible stages; another one presented herpetic cornea perforated ulceration with uveitis. Since ocular trauma until appearance of sympathetic ophthalmia, the time was two months at eight cases and two years at two cases. Under clinical aspect seven cases evolved like an anterior uveitis, two cases like a panuveitis and one like a uveopapillitis. Pathologic exam on the removed eye was not specific for sympathetic ophthalmia and only the clinical examination established the diagnosis. Under corticotherapy and immunomodulator therapy, sympathetic ophthalmia evolves this days benign. The disease should not be underestimated. It is not a disappeared disease..
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PMID:[Sympathetic ophthalmia, one missing disease?]. 1532 43