Ocular involvement in recurrent infectious mucocutaneous eruption (RIME): a variation on a theme

Ryan Gise; Abdelrahman M Elhusseiny; Christina Scelfo; Iason S Mantagos

doi:10.1016/j.jaapos.2020.10.003

Ocular involvement in recurrent infectious mucocutaneous eruption (RIME): a variation on a theme

J AAPOS. 2021 Feb;25(1):62-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2020.10.003. Epub 2020 Dec 18.

Authors

Ryan Gise¹, Abdelrahman M Elhusseiny², Christina Scelfo², Iason S Mantagos²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: Ryan.Gise@Childrens.Harvard.edu.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 33348041
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2020.10.003

Abstract

We present 2 cases of pediatric patients with reactive infectious mucocutaneous eruption with ophthalmic involvement. In both cases, the disease processes behaved similarly to that seen in patients with Mycoplasma pneumoniae-induced rash and mucositis. Visual outcomes were good.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Child
Exanthema*
Eye
Humans
Mucositis*
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Pneumonia, Mycoplasma*