ArticleJournal of ophthalmic inflammation and infection2018
Atypical white dot syndrome with choriocapillaris ischemia in a patient with latent tuberculosis.
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- Inadequacies in uveitis: misnomers, incongruencies, persistence of obsolete terminologies & inappropriate guidelines, treatment inadequacies, and misinterpretations.Journal of ophthalmic inflammation and infection · 2025Review
- Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome and presentations similar to multiple evanescent white dot syndrome in other disorders: a narrative review.International journal of ophthalmology · 2025Review
- Unilateral Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome-Like Reaction Following the CyberKnife Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Choroidal Malignant Melanoma.Turkish journal of ophthalmology · 2023Article
- White dot syndrome in a patient with presumed ocular tuberculosis: a case report.International journal of retina and vitreous · 2022Article
- Masqueraders of multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS).International ophthalmology · 2020Article
- Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Shows Choriocapillaris Flow Reduction in Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome.Journal of current ophthalmologyArticle
- Opposing pathophysiological concepts in multiple evanescent white dot syndrome: The great MEWDS schism.Saudi journal of ophthalmology : official journal of the Saudi Ophthalmological SocietyReview
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Abstract
backgroundWhite dot syndromes (WDS) are a group of idiopathic multifocal inflammatory conditions that can be recognized and distinguished by lesion morphology, other specific clinical features, imaging findings, and disease course. Our purpose is to describe an atypical case of WDS with choriocapillaris ischemia shown by multimodal imaging including swept-source OCT angiography (OCTA) in a 30-year-old woman with latent tuberculosis.
findingsAt presentation, visual acuity in the left eye was 20/500. Clinical findings included macular granularity, diffuse outer retinal discoloration with satellite yellow-white dots, and disc margin blurring. Fluorescein angiography showed early confluent areas of choroidal hypofluorescence and late perifoveal punctate hyperfluorescence. There was choroidal hypofluorescence in a geographic configuration throughout the indocyanine green angiography sequence. OCTA showed confluent geographic areas of loss of signal in the choriocapillaris. Work-up revealed latent tuberculosis. The patient received corticosteroids and prophylactic anti-tubercular treatment. Nine months later, visual acuity had improved to 20/20, and there were some residual retinal pigment epithelium changes.
conclusionAtypical WDS associated with choriocapillaris hypoperfusion may show features of multiple evanescent white dot syndrome and acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy melting together.
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