Profound hypotony maculopathy in a first episode of bilateral idiopathic acute anterior uveitis
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Profound hypotony maculopathy in a first episode of bilateral idiopathic acute anterior uveitis
BACKGROUND We report a case of a HLA-B27 negative patient presenting with severe, bilateral, idiopathic acute anterior uveitis with acute hypotony and hypotony maculopathy as their first uveitic episode. CASE PRESENTATION Within a week of onset of her first episode of acute anterior uveitis, a 45 year-old Caucasian lady developed profound ocular hypotony with unrecordable intraocular pressure...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Ophthalmology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-2415
DOI: 10.1186/s12886-015-0105-0