Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is a fulminant necrotizing form of retinitis of viral origin. Without treatment, ARN leads to the irreversible blindness by destruction of the retina and the optic nerve. The clinical observation was first described under the term Kirisawa uveitis (Urayama et al., 1971) while the term acute retinal necrosis was introduced by Young & Bird (1978). The international di...

ocular complications and resultant poor visual acuity, whereas the cases reported herein responded well to topical corticosteroid therapy and had better visual outcomes. One patient did develop a choroidalneovascularmembrane formation 11 years after the initial diagnosis of VKH syndrome that has previously been reported to occur in 11% ofaffectedeyes. Ithasbeensuggested that chronic AU may lead...

Introduction Acute excitotoxicity causes cytotoxic edema that precedes neuron cell necrosis and apoptosis in neurological diseases. Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) decreases early reflecting cytotoxic edema in various brain injuries. Our recent study demonstrated that high-resolution diffusion MRI detected three retinal layers of distinct ADC. In this study, we examined the feasibility of ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this brief communication is to alert ophthalmologists that optic neuropathy may herald acute retinal necrosis (ARN). CASE A previously healthy 54-year-old man exhibited optic neuropathy as an initial presentation of ARN, 8 weeks after varicella-zoster dermatitis. OBSERVATIONS Central retinal vascular obstruction developed subsequently in his left eye. Later, the cl...

To explore the effect of health education model based on behavior change wheel (BCW) theory in patients with acute retinal necrosis (ARN). 78 diagnosed ARN were randomly divided into control group (n = 39) and observation 39). The received standard eye care, whereas was given BCW theory-based care. two groups compared uncertainty disease, anxiety depression levels, treatment compliance, disease...