Uveitis with allergy to candidin.

Abstract

By skin testing, 21 patients with uveitis were more reactive to Candida extracts than a control group of patients during the same 15-year follow-up period. Skin testing with candidin induced an obvious and transient change of the course of the ocular disease in 19 patients and led to systemic symptoms in 15 patients; 11 were atopic, 17 had intermediate uveitis. Antifungal treatment and/or desensitization improved the ocular condition in 16 patients. The real pathogeny of these uveitides remains hypothetical.

• Authors: E Bloch-Michel, J C Timsit
• Journal: Ophthalmologica. Journal international d'ophtalmologie. International journal of ophthalmology. Zeitschrift fur Augenheilkunde (Ophthalmologica) Vol. 191 Issue 2 Pg. 102-6 ( 1985) ISSN: 0030-3755 [Print] Switzerland
• PMID: 4058855 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Anti-Bacterial Agents
• Antifungal Agents
• Macrolides
• Polyenes
• candidin

Topics

• Adult
• Aged
• Anti-Bacterial Agents
• Antifungal Agents (immunology, therapeutic use)
• Drug Hypersensitivity (immunology)
• Female
• Humans
• Macrolides
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Polyenes (immunology)
• Skin Tests
• Uveitis (diagnosis, drug therapy, immunology)