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Authors’ addresses: Ranjit Sah, Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal, E-mails: [email protected] or [email protected]. Anadi Khatri and Hony Kc, Birat Eye Hospital, Biratnagar, Nepal, E-mails: [email protected] and [email protected]. Ranju Kharel, B.P. Koirala Lions Centre of Ophthalmic Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal, E-mail: [email protected]. Ali A. Rabaan, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, E-mail: [email protected]. Ruchi Tiwari, College of Veterinary Sciences, UP Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Pashu Chikitsa Vigyan Vishwavidyalay Evum Go-Anusandhan Sansthan (DUVASU), Mathura, India, E-mail: [email protected]. Kuldeep Dhama and Yashpal Singh Malik, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, India, E-mails: [email protected] and [email protected]. Suzanne Donovan, Division of Infectious Diseases, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, E-mail: [email protected]. Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia, E-mail: [email protected]. Veronika Muigg and Andreas Neumayr, Department of Medicine, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, E-mails: [email protected] and [email protected].
Abstract.
We report four asymptomatic patients from Nepal with an incidental finding of a dead intraocular helminth parasite on ophthalmological routine examination. Because the patients were asymptomatic and the intraocular helminth parasites dead without noted pathology present, it was decided to abstain from surgical removal and pursue a watch-and-wait strategy. The clinical follow-up of the four patients over two years was uneventful and showed no complications. We conclude that dead intraocular helminth parasites in asymptomatic patients without apparent pathology do not require surgical removal.