Ocular tuberculosis (TB) is a challenging clinical entity, presenting hurdles in diagnosis and management for both ophthalmologists and infectious disease specialists. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment may be sight-saving in patients with ocular TB. However, diagnostic obstacles present the greatest limitations in understanding and treating ocular TB. The current article focuses on its clinical presentation and management.
Ocular tuberculosis constitutes an extrapulmonary form of the disease. It includes any infection in or around the eye caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis or its related species. The eye is the initial portal of entry into the body, in the case of primary ocular TB, whereas in case of secondary ocular TB infection results from contagious spread from hematogenous dissemination. Although primary infection of the eye is rare, almost every tissue of the eye and its…
