A 20 year old man complains of difficulty in reading the newspaper with his right eye, three weeks after sustaining a gun shot injury to his left eye. The most likely diagnosis is -: (A) Macular edema, (B) Sympathetic ophthalmitis, (C) Optic nerve avulsion, (D) Delayed viterous hemorrhage
Answer is B. Symptoms in sympathizing eye usually develop after 4-8 weeks of injury to exciting eye. However, it can also develop early, earliest reported case is after 9 days of injury.