Course: Annoying Conjunctival Thelaziasis in a Patient Aged 81 Years
CME Credits: 1.00
Released: 2023-03-16
An 81-year-old female patient presented with a foreign body sensation in the left eye for 1 month. On assessment, a long, threadlike, white worm crawling on the conjunctival surface was identified (, A and ). In addition, the patient also had a pterygium and cataract. One half hour after the slitlamp examination, the worm was removed and was identified as an adult Thelazia callipaeda worm by the parasite department of the Medical College of Qingdao University. The patient recalled that a fly had contact with her left eye 1 month ago. She was given an initial dose of albendazole tablets, 200 mg, and then twice a day for 7 days.
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