Case Presentation: A 40-year-old man presents with painful, progressive bilateral vision loss which began two months prior, and was described as the patient feeling as if he were “looking through a straw”. He noted excruciating eye pain, redness, and tearing. Despite work as a tree trimmer, patient denied known trauma. He endorsed a twenty-pound unintentional [...]

Case Presentation: A 41 years-old Scottish male patient with a past medical history significant for erectile dysfunction, prior EBV infection, hyperlipidemia, umbilical hernia, and urethral meatal stenosis was referred by his PCP to rheumatology for oral thrush and recurrent oral ulcers for 3 years. The patient was initially seen by an Infectious disease doctor who [...]

Case Presentation: There is a trend for increasing frequency of primary and secondary syphilis in developed countries, especially in men who have sex with men. Ocular manifestations of syphilis are rare, occurring in less than one in 1 million persons. Distinctive patterns of syphilitic uveitis include white, focal preretinal opacities, and acute posterior placoid uveitis. [...]

Case Presentation: An 87 year old male with a history of bilateral cataract surgery 18 months prior and recent immigration to the United States as a farmer from Honduras presented for bilateral vision loss and eye pain worsening over the last 3 months. Evaluation by Ophthalmology revealed left panuveitis, right anterior uveitis, and right retinal [...]

Case Presentation: A 50-year-old male with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and mitral valve prolapse presented to the ED per ophthalmology for further evaluation after 2 weeks of progressive bilateral vision changes, floaters, eye redness, and pain. On his initial presentation to eye clinic, he was diagnosed with bilateral panuveitis and managed with hourly prednisone [...]

Case Presentation: A 44 year-old HIV-positive man on HAART with a CD4 count of 340 cells/mm3 and a history of primary syphilis treated with penicillin G benzathine presented to the ophthalmology clinic with five days of right eye redness, lacrimation, blurred vision and floaters. Examination of right eye revealed conjunctival injection and eyelid edema. Visual [...]