Unusual Masquerading Infraorbital Mass-A Case Report of Human Ocular Dirofilariosis Found in A Ukrainian Patient in Switzerland.

Menna, Feliciana; Billia, Filippo; Papazoglou, Anthia; Tschopp, Markus; Grobholz, Rainer (2023). Unusual Masquerading Infraorbital Mass-A Case Report of Human Ocular Dirofilariosis Found in A Ukrainian Patient in Switzerland. Pathogens, 12(8) MDPI AG 10.3390/pathogens12080982

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A 78-year-old Ukrainian woman who had immigrated to Switzerland presented with a rapid growing subcutaneous infraorbital mass. Surgical excision of the mass revealed a well-circumscribed, encapsulated tumor, adherent to the skin. The excision showed a soft tissue inflammation with parts of Dirofilaria spp. The number of cases of human dirofilariosis reported in the last 50 years has gradually increased. Dirofilaria repens is now endemic in many countries and is currently considered to be one of the fast spreading zoonoses in Central, Eastern and Northern Europe. The first empirical evidence of Swiss spreading of D. repens infections was in a dog from southern Switzerland in 1998. Ours is the first case of human orbital dirofilariosis found in a Ukranian patient reported in Switzerland. Our purpose is to inform the ophthalmologist to consider orbital dirofilariosis in the differential diagnosis of inflammatory masses of the orbit and to warn about the spread of this infection in Switzerland.

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