Paracentral Acute Middle Maculopathy Associated With Dengue Fever
Salil Mehta · 2025
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Description
Dengue fever can reach the eye, and one rare effect is a small dead zone in the center of vision. Salil Mehta reports a 33-year-old man with confirmed dengue. Five days into the illness, with fever, rash, and gum bleeding as his platelets fell, he noticed a blind spot and mild blur in his right eye. Scans showed the bright band in the inner retina that defines paracentral acute middle maculopathy.
Mehta suspects the dengue virus starved a deep layer of retinal blood vessels, either through local inflammation or thickened blood. The man was treated with oral steroids that tapered weekly, and within two days his sight improved and the retinal lesions shrank. The report urges doctors to treat a new central blind spot during dengue as a warning sign worth imaging at once.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Salil Mehta |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |