Coats’ Disease: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Coats disease is an idiopathic nonhereditary condition retinal vascular disorder characterized by telangiectasia with intraretinal and/ or subretinal exudation. Unilateral involvement in young males the typical presentation most cases being diagnosed first and second decade of life and, if untreated, can lead to total detachment secondary glaucoma, sometimes requiring enucleation. The common presenting complaints include decreased vision, strabismus, leukocoria. This article describes clinical features, pathophysiology, classification staging, complications, differential diagnosis, management disease.