A Focal Chorioretinal Bartonella Lesion Analyzed by Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography.

摘要: Neovascularization may be associated with cat-scratch neuroretinitis in the absence of retinal vascular occlusion. Bartonella organisms establish an intimate relationship endothelium, causing angioproliferative lesions, which might represent a dedicated pathogenic strategy for expanding bacterial host cell habitat. In eye, pathological angiogenesis caused by has been described as peripapillary or macular choroidal neovascularization, but presence neovascularization within foci chorioretinitis never before reported. The authors present case optical coherence tomography angiography, detecting erythrocyte motion, was able to identify neovessels inside infectious focus. [Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2016;47:585-588.].