Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Image
  • Published:

Tubercular choroidal granuloma development despite anti-tubercular treatment: managed with anti-VEGF and oral steroids

Eye (2024)Cite this article

Subjects

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on SpringerLink
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: A 32-year-old male diagnosed with Pott’s spine and on anti-tubercular treatment (ATT) for the past six months presented with decreased vision in his left eye for one week.

References

  1. Young L, Yakin M, Sen HN. Choroidal granuloma resolution with tuberculosis treatment. Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep. 2020;20:100969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2020.100969.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  2. Hamade IH, Tabbara KF. Complications of presumed ocular tuberculosis. Acta Ophthalmol. 2010;88:905–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01579.x

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Agrawal R, Gunasekeran DV, Grant R. Clinical features and outcomes of patients with tubercular uveitis treated with antitubercular therapy in the collaborative ocular tuberculosis study (COTS)-1. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2017;135:1318–27.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  4. Jain S, Agarwal A, Gupta V. Resolution of large choroidal tuberculoma following monotherapy with intravitreal ranibizumab. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2020;28:494–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/09273948.2019.1582786.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Command Hospital, (Eastern Command), Kolkata, India

    Vipin Rana & Sandepan Bandopadhyay

  2. Department of Radiology, 155 base hospital, Tezpur, Assam, India

    Vinita Binny

  3. Western Eye hospital, London, United Kingdom

    Atul Gupta

Authors
  1. Vipin Rana
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Vinita Binny
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Atul Gupta
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Sandepan Bandopadhyay
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Contributions

Concepts: Vipin Rana, Literature search: Atul Gupta, Data acquisition: Vinita Binny, Manuscript preparation: Vipin Rana, Vinita Binny, Manuscript editing: Atul Gupta, Sandepan Bandopadhyay, Manuscript review: Atul Gupta, Sandepan Bandopadhyay.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Vipin Rana.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Additional information

Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Rana, V., Binny, V., Gupta, A. et al. Tubercular choroidal granuloma development despite anti-tubercular treatment: managed with anti-VEGF and oral steroids. Eye (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-024-03313-9

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-024-03313-9

Search

Advanced search

Quick links