Idiopathic uveal effusion syndrome

✍ Scribed by Joanne L. Bachman

• Book ID: 104359136
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 523 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0953-4431
• DOI: 10.1016/s0953-4431(96)00193-2

✦ Synopsis

Idiopathic weal effusion syndrome (IUES) is a rare condition characterized by a spontaneous detachment of the choroid, often with a secondary non-rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, in healthy middle-aged men. It is hypothesized that the primary cause of the condition is a corngenital scleral anomaly causing abnormal uveoscleral protein transport. The following case report reviews a typical presentati'on of IUES. The patient was treated with lamellar sclerectomy and sclerostomy with resolution of the choroidal detachment lover the next several months. Three months later, the patient developed unilateral disc swelling and a non-ischemic central retinal vein occlusion which eventually resolved without sequelae.