Coat's disease: clinical, angiographic, histopathological findings and clinical management.

Coat's disease: clinical, angiographic, histopathological findings and clinical management.

Twenty-four consecutive patients with Coats's disease are reported. In 9 cases the blind eye was enucleated because of total exudative detachment of the retina or because of untreatable secondary glaucoma. No treatment had been given. Fifteen patients between 22 months and 52 years of age were managed by argon laser or xenon photocoagulation and/or cryocoagulation. The number of treatment sessi...

Clinical-histopathological correlation in a case of Coats' disease

BACKGROUND Coats' disease is a non-hereditary ocular disease, with no systemic manifestation, first described by Coats in 1908. It occurs more commonly in children and has a clear male predominance. Most patients present clinically with unilateral decreased vision, strabismus or leukocoria. The most important differential diagnosis is unilateral retinoblastoma, which occurs in the same age grou...

Clinical, Histopathological and Immunofluorescent Findings of IgA Nephropathy

Background: IgA nephropathy, a prevalent disease in Asia, is considered the main cause of end stage renal disease among primary glomerular disease. Objective: To determine the frequency of different clinical, histopathological and immunofluorescent characteristics of IgA nephropathy. Methods: Renal biopsies of 376 patients were received for immunofluorescent and for histopathological studies. B...

Comment on: Clinical, Histopathological and Immunofluorescent Findings of IgA Nephropathy

Clinical and angiographic findings in Moya Moya

PATIENT Female, 40 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Moya-Moya Disease Symptoms: Blurred vision • headache • lethargy MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Neurology. OBJECTIVE Rare disease. BACKGROUND Moya Moya is a cerebrovasculopathy of the terminal internal carotid arteries and the proximal anterior and middle cerebral arteries. It is comparatively more common in Japan compared to Western coun...