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Presumed Ocular Histoplasmosis Syndrome

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Presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS) is a subset of multifocal choroiditis that occurs secondary to infection with the yeast form of , a dimorphic fungus commonly found in bird and bat fecal material. The peculiarities of the disease are the following: atrophic chorioretinal scars, peripapillary atrophy (PPA), absence of vitritis, and choroidal neovascularization (CNV), which represents the most dangerous sequela. The disease can be unilateral or bilateral.

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  1. The Ocular Immunology Service, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

    Piergiorgio Neri, Vittorio Pirani, Michele Nicolai & Andrea Saitta

  2. The Eye Clinic, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

    Piergiorgio Neri, Vittorio Pirani, Michele Nicolai, Andrea Saitta, Cesare Mariotti & Alfonso Giovannini

  3. University Hospital Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania

    Ilir Arapi

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  1. Piergiorgio Neri
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Correspondence to Piergiorgio Neri .

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  1. Advanced Eye Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Vishali Gupta

  2. Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University, Paris, France

    Phuc LeHoang

  4. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Carl P Herbort Jr.

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Neri, P. et al. (2016). Presumed Ocular Histoplasmosis Syndrome. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Herbort Jr., C. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2506-5_40-1

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