Retinal vasculitis with multifocal retinochoroiditis

✍ Scribed by Friederike Schenck; Wilhelm Böke

• Book ID: 104650451
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1018 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-5701
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00163566

✦ Synopsis

We found a multifocal retinochoroiditis in 16 patients (13 female, 3 male). Patients also showed vitreous cells, in some cases pronounced retinal vasculitis, cystoid macular edema and papilledema. The patients ranged in age from 62 to 77 years. The anterior segment was involved in 13 cases. One patient demonstrated subretinal neovascularisation in both eyes. Fluorescein angiograms showed leakage from the retinal vessels, papilledema, macular edema and subretinal neovascularisation. A convincing classification of the described changes within any known disease entity was impossible. The findings most closely resembled a disease described by Dreyer and Gass in 1984 as 'multifocal choroiditis and panuveitis'.

Retinal vasculitis with multifocal retinochoroiditis

During the last four years we have seen 16 patients in our uveitis clinic with a strange intraocular inflammation. We termed this disease 'multi-focal retinochoroiditis' and assume it is caused by retinal vasculitis.