TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schroeder, Katharina
A1  - Meyer-ter-Vehn, Tobias
A1  - Fassnacht-Riederle, Heidi
A1  - Guthoff, Rainer
T1  - Course of disease in multifocal choroiditis lacking sufficient immunosuppression: a case report
JF  - Journal of Medical Case Reports
N2  - Background:
Multifocal choroiditis with panuveitis is a rare disease. The educational merit of this case presentation results from the good documentation and the impressive ocular fundus pictures.

Case presentation:
We illustrate the 3-year course of disease in a 22-year-old myopic white woman with multifocal choroiditis with panuveitis and secondary choroidal neovascularization. The activity of the disease was evaluated clinically by optical coherence tomography and fluorescein angiography. Choroidal neovascularization was treated by intravitreal bevacizumab (2.5 mg/0.1 ml). Our patient lacked systemic therapy for the first 11 months because of noncompliance.

Conclusions:
The case is remarkable as the delayed onset of peripheral lesions and the additional existence of high myopia made diagnosis difficult. In addition, it demonstrates that full outbreak of disease with multiple central and peripheral fundus lesions and secondary choroidal neovascularization can develop without systemic treatment.
KW  - multifocal choroiditis
KW  - chorioretinal lesions
KW  - secondary CNV
KW  - bevacizumab
KW  - systemic immunosuppression
KW  - case report
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-171317
VL  - 10
IS  - 298
ER  -