American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 130, Issue 3 , Pages 327-334 , September 2000

Optic disk edema associated with peripapillary serous retinal detachment: an early sign of systemic Bartonella henselae infection

  • N.Kevin Wade (MDCM, FRCPC, FRCSC)

      Affiliations

    • Francis I. Proctor Foundation (Drs Wade, Fine, and Cunningham), San Francisco, California, USA
    • Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center (Drs Wade, Jones, Bhisitkul, Fine, and Cunningham), San Francisco, California, USA
    • ,
  • Leah Levi, MBBS

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego (Dr Levi), La Jolla, California, USA
    • ,
  • Matthew R Jones, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center (Drs Wade, Jones, Bhisitkul, Fine, and Cunningham), San Francisco, California, USA
    • ,
  • Robert Bhisitkul, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Francis I. Proctor Foundation (Drs Wade, Fine, and Cunningham), San Francisco, California, USA
    • ,
  • Laura Fine, MD

      Affiliations

    • Francis I. Proctor Foundation (Drs Wade, Fine, and Cunningham), San Francisco, California, USA
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  • Emmett T Cunningham Jr., MD, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Francis I. Proctor Foundation (Drs Wade, Fine, and Cunningham), San Francisco, California, USA
    • Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center (Drs Wade, Jones, Bhisitkul, Fine, and Cunningham), San Francisco, California, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationRequests for reprints to Emmett T. Cunningham, Jr., The Pearl & Samuel J. Kimura Ocular Immunology Laboratory, The Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94143-0944; fax: (415) 476-0527

,Accepted 6 June 2000.

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☆ This work was supported in part by a grant from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and the E.A. Baker Foundation Fellowship Award (Dr Wade), and a Career Development Award from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc, New York, New York (Dr Cunningham).

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