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Scleromalacia perforans: a case report

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Case Reports, June 2018
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Title
Scleromalacia perforans: a case report
Published in
Journal of Medical Case Reports, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13256-018-1686-z
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Muhammad Ishaq Ghauri, Syeda Urooj Riaz, Amir Husain, Asad Raza Jafri, Zara Tul Ain Bashir

Abstract

Scleromalacia perforans is a rare ocular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis which can potentially lead to blindness and is a late consequence in the course of the disease. It is an unusual finding for it to be present in a patient with joint pain without any rheumatologic progression of disease. We describe a rare case of scleromalacia perforans and orbital inflammatory disease in a 40-year-old Pakistani woman with apparently no associated rheumatologic deformity. It is rare in the sense that we usually see scleromalacia perforans with fixed deformities of rheumatoid arthritis in the hands or progressed systemic complications but not as a starting landmark of disease. She presented to us with pronounced eye manifestation which on further inquiry and investigation was found to be associated with rheumatoid arthritis. There was perforation of left globe on presentation and the right one was preserved. She visited various physicians and ophthalmologists and was treated with topical and systemic antibiotics but ended up losing sight in her left eye. We conclude that ocular manifestations, however rare they are, should be foreseen, investigated, and treated in patients with suspected arthritis as the complication is grave and sight threatening.

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Unknown 22 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 4 18%
Student > Master 3 14%
Student > Bachelor 2 9%
Student > Postgraduate 2 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 45%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 41%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 9%
Social Sciences 1 5%
Unknown 10 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 October 2022.
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#6,853,325
of 24,896,578 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Medical Case Reports
#525
of 4,407 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#111,029
of 335,880 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Case Reports
#14
of 93 outputs
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