A Recurrent Central Band Keratopathy in a Child.

For the first time, to our knowledge, we present the case of a child with simultaneous occurrence of a C3-glomerulopathy and an anterior uveitis complicated with severe band keratopathy (BK). In addition, repeated evaluations of uveitis disclosed important differences between slit lamp and laser flare photometry (LFP) results due to BK, making treatment choice difficult. A 6-year-old boy presented with a red, painful left eye as well as face edema with macroscopic hematuria. He had also proteinuria in a nephrotic range, moderate hypertension, and mild decrease of glomerular filtration. Diagnoses of simultaneous unilateral anterior nongranulomatous uveitis and biopsy-proven C3G were made. Etiologic investigations of uveitis included infectious (tuberculosis, syphilis, lyme, bartonellosis, toxocarosis, toxoplasmosis, leptospirosis, HIV, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, herpes simplex virus, cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus: all negative; varicella zoster virus former infection IgG-positive), and …