Dr. Soumyava Basu

Head, Uveitis Services, LV Prasad Eye Institute

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Dr Soumyava Basu is currently the Network Head, Uveitis Services at L V Prasad Eye Institute. He also is the Head -Research and Head - Retina & Uveitis Services at LVPEI's Mithu Tulsi Chanrai campus at Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Dr Basus research interests lie in molecular diagnostics and immune-pathogenesis of ocular tuberculosis. He has received multiple competitive research grants including the DBT Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship in Clinical and Public Health Research. He has published widely in peer-reviewed international journals and has been a reviewer for nearly all major ophthalmology journals. Dr Basu has been actively involved in framing the Indian Extra-pulmonary TB (INDEX-TB) guidelines and has recently been appointed Section Editor, Uvea, and Inflammation, Indian Journal of Ophthalmology. He has also been the principal investigator for several multi-centric clinical trials.

  1. Articles 1 Apr 2021 4 min read

    Ten Pearls for Managing a Case of Tubercular Uveitis

    Pattern recognition is critical in the diagnosis and treatment of any form of uveitis. Here are 10 pearls that will make it easier to recognize patterns of presentation and resolution in tubercular uveitis. The general approach to diagnosis: We are all aware of the role of identifying clinical signs of TB in the eye and that of ancillary tests for systemic TB (immunological and radiological). However, we tend to ignore the last part – the exclusion of non-TB entities. These include various infectious and non-infectious conditions that can match a given clinical sign of ocular TB. Tubercular retinal vasculitis – 1: TB retinal vasculitis typically causes a periphlebitis, though rarely arterioles can also be affected. The most common clue for a tubercular etiology is the presence of active or healed retinitis lesions underlying the blood vessels (subvascular lesions). These are intraretinal granuloma and are highly predictive of tubercular etiology in TB-endemic countries (Kaza et al., 20

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