Coats' disease is characterized by abnormal retinal vascular development (so-called 'retinal telangiectasis') which results in massive intraretinal and subretinal lipid accumulation (exudative retinal detachment). The classical form of Coats' disease is almost invariably isolated, unilateral and seen in males. A female with a unilateral variant of Coats' disease gave birth to a son affected by ...

Objective To describe the features of a female patient with a biopsy-proven xanthogranulomatous infiltration of the conjunctiva, limbus and sclera who had an exudative retinal detachment, combined ophthalmic artery and central retinal vein occlusion unilaterally. Method A-53-year old otherwise healthy woman presenting with a painful visual loss in her right eye underwent an ophthalmic examina...

AIM To study the results of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (TA) for exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) among Japanese patients. METHODS 13 eyes of 12 Japanese patients (9 males and 3 females) with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) of exudative AMD received intravitreal TA (8 mg). Visual acuity, size of CNV and serous retinal detachment, and complications related...

We report a case of Coats disease in a 9-year-old boy who had a profound visual deficit and increasing pain in his right eye. Funduscopic examination revealed a complex, exudative retinal detachment with a subretinal mass and peripheral retinal telangiectasis. B-scan ultrasonography revealed a heterogeneously echogenic subretinal mass with several highly reflective foci consistent with calcific...

The aim of this retrospective, nationwide, matched cohort study was to investigate the association of serous retinal detachment with having end-stage renal disease (ESRD) while on dialysis. The cohort study included 94,024 patients with ESRD on dialysis registered between January 2000 to December 2009 in the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. An age- and sex-matched control gro...

We present a case of Coats’-like retinitis pigmentosa in a 22-year-old female patient. Both eyes showed the typical funduscopic features of retinitis pigmentosa, and the right eye showed scar formation due to exudative retinal detachment in the temporal peripheral retina with dilatation of the retinal vessels. Fluorescein angiography did not show dye leakage at the scar lesion or the dilated re...

BACKGROUND Choroidal melanoma is frequently accompanied by an exudative retinal detachment that can persist after proton beam therapy. This study investigates whether vitrectomy without tumor resection improves the clinical outcome. METHODS This is a retrospective interventional case series. Twenty patients with choroidal melanoma with exudative retinal detachment involving the macula were tr...

We conducted a study of the effect of intravitreal plasmin on retinal thickness in rabbits. Forty rabbit eyes were injected with 0.4, 1, 2, and 5 IU of plasmin (8 eyes/group). The same volume of BSS-plus(®) was injected in control eyes. Four eyes in each group underwent vitrectomy 60 minutes after the injections. The retinal thickness was measured in optical coherence tomographic (OCT) images b...