ABSTRACT
The author describes a case of rare idiopathic hypereosinophilia demonstrated by a 26 years old man. General symptoms were founded 4 years before and now disease takes a progressive course including a rapid decrease of visual functions. Several alterations of organic findings were also found in heart, liver, lung, spleen and brain. A marked musculatur dystrophia in regions of upper arms and calf muscles was demonstrated by the young man. Using ophthalmoscope infarctions, edema and hemorrhage in the retina were found, also new growth of vessels, hemorrhage into the vitreous body and detachment of retina.
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Eosinophilia/diagnosis , Retinal Diseases/diagnosis , Fluorescein Angiography , Humans , Infarction/diagnosis , Ophthalmoscopy , Retinal Hemorrhage/diagnosis , Syndrome , Vision Disorders/diagnosisABSTRACT
The present paper begins with a description of the clinical picture of Terrien's disease. Using radionuclide dacryography (RND) to determine secretion, reduced tear secretion was found unilaterally in four patients and bilaterally in one (as indicated by the half-lives of the conjunctival drainage curves). In four patients RND failed to reveal any reduction in tear secretion on either side. The slightly elevated IgG values found in the tear fluid are in agreement with the clinically detected signs of inflammation. The serum parameters determined, such as iron, magnesium, and copper levels and the electrolyte, uric acid, and creatinine concentrations were normal.
