2016
DOI: 10.5935/0034-7280.20160096
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Nutritional treatment for leagnous conjuntivitis: case report and literature review

Abstract: A conjuntivite lenhosa é resultante de um raro distúrbio autossômico recessivo hereditário, a deficiência de plasminogênio. Esta apresenta sintomas crônicos, como lesões conjuntivais membranosas características, inicialmente finas e com a persistência da inflamação evoluem se tornando esbranquiçadas, espessas e enrijecidas, lacrimejamento, secreção mucosa e hiperemia ocular acompanhados de espessas pseudomembranas lenhosa (PL) que recobrem a parte interior da conjuntiva tarsal. A literatura apresenta alguns tr… Show more

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“…Such membranes are deeply adhered to the conjunctiva of the eyelid, with its free end. Removal tends to cause bleeding because the area is vascularized [4,5].…”
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“…Such membranes are deeply adhered to the conjunctiva of the eyelid, with its free end. Removal tends to cause bleeding because the area is vascularized [4,5].…”
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“…Granito & Ferreira [5] shown a case study, with a Patient C.G.C.P., 13 years old, "female, diagnosed at 3 years old with ligneous conjunctivitis due to a symptomatic homozygous deficiency of plasminogen (Functional Plasminogen 20%; Reference threshold according to the medical diagnostic laboratory: 70% to 140%). Concomitant to the disease, the same featured low immunity with frequent appearance of skin infections due to atopic dermatitis, and in the respiratory tract, constant rashes, and excessive production of secretions in the mucosa of the eyelid, with growth of ligneous pseudo membrane (PL).…”
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