Cat scratch leads to woman’s vision loss and brain lesions: case
Doctors say it’s the first reported case of CNS bartonellosis with multiple brain abscesses.
Doctors have reported the first case of CNS bartonellosis with brain abscesses, in a woman whose infection may have stemmed from a cat scratch.
The 28-year-old patient had presented to an ED in the US, reporting progressive vision loss over a four-month period, which was asymmetric, bilateral and painless.
