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Course of disease in multifocal choroiditis lacking sufficient immunosuppression: a case report
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-171317
- 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 byBackground: 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.…
Author: | Katharina Schroeder, Tobias Meyer-ter-Vehn, Heidi Fassnacht-Riederle, Rainer Guthoff |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-171317 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Medizinische Fakultät / Augenklinik und Poliklinik |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of Medical Case Reports |
Year of Completion: | 2016 |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 298 |
Source: | Journal of Medical Case Reports (2016) 10:298. DOI: 10.1186/s13256-016-1069-2 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1069-2 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Tag: | bevacizumab; case report; chorioretinal lesions; multifocal choroiditis; secondary CNV; systemic immunosuppression |
Release Date: | 2019/09/02 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |