Acute retinal necrosis is a viral syndrome characterized by a panuveitis with necrotizing retinitis that may be complicated by retinal detachment, vaso-occlusion, optic neuropathy, and other causes of decreased visual acuity. Polymerase chain reaction testing provides a rapid and sensitive method of identifying the viral etiology of acute retinal necrosis, which is most commonly caused by herpe...

BACKGROUND An ocular injury can lead to secondary glaucoma in the traumatized eye in 3% to 20% of cases. Literature on the risk of developing elevated intraocular pressure in the nontraumatized fellow eye is scant. Clinicians treating ocular traumas should also bear in mind sympathetic ophthalmia, a rare bilateral granulomatous panuveitis following accidental or surgical trauma to 1 eye. CASE...

The white dot syndromes are a group of inflammatory chorioretinopathies of unknown etiology which have in common a unique and characteristic appearance of multiple yellow-white lesions affecting multiple layers of the retina, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), choriocapillaris, and the choroid. They also have overlapping clinical features. We discuss acute retinal pigment epitheliopathy, multipl...

A 27-year-old man presented with decreased vision bilaterally. Ophthalmologic examination revealed panuveitis with bilateral serous retinal detachments (figure 1) characteristic of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) syndrome. Analysis of CSF revealed mild pleocytosis. No oligoclonal bands were detected. On MRI, there was bilateral abnormal thickening of the choroid with retinal detachment (figure 2, A ...

PURPOSE To report a case of recurrent idiopathic frosted branch angiitis (FBA) successfully treated with adalimumab. CASE REPORT A 14-year-old otherwise healthy boy was referred to the uveitis clinic for bilateral panuveitis with diffuse retinal vascular sheathing and severe macular edema. Extensive work-up including aqueous sampling for detection of viral causes was inconclusive. Two years a...

BACKGROUND We report a rare case of bilateral panuveitis from human herpes virus 6 (HHV-6) with genomic viral DNA integration in an immunocompromised man. FINDINGS A 59-year-old man with history of multiple myeloma presented with altered mental status, bilateral eye redness, and blurry vision. Examination revealed bilateral diffuse keratic precipitates, 4+ anterior chamber cell, hypopyon, vit...