purpose: to report a case of acute retinal necrosis following herpetic encephalitis. case report: a 25-year-old male presented with pain and visual loss in his left eye. he had herpetic encephalitis 1 month prior to the visual symptoms. ophthalmologic examination and paraclinical evaluation disclosed acute retinal necrosis. conclusion: herpetic encephalitis may be a risk factor for acute retina...

PURPOSE: To report a case of unilateral acute retinal necrosis after herpetic encephalitis CASE REPORT: A young man was referred with a chief complaint of blurred vision and pain of the left eye 1 month after herpetic encephalitis in the left frontotemporal lobe. The patient had multiple foci of retinitis in the retinal periphery associated with vitritis, blot retinal hemorrhage and retinal art...

In this paper 4 patients are described who had bilateral symmetrical confluent retinal swelling followed by apparent necrosis and sloughing of the retina into the vitreous. The disease was accompanied by signs of uveitis and the clinical appearance suggested inflammation rather than infarction as the pathogenic mechanism. No systemic abnormalities were found by which the aetiology could be iden...

Six patients with the acute retinal necrosis (ARN) syndrome are described. Ophthalmoscopic examination demonstrated occlusion of peripheral retinal vessels and patchy areas of peripheral retinal whitening spreading rapidly over a period of weeks to markedly decreased vision. In four patients, the disease was bilateral. Histologic examination of vitrectomy specimens from three cases and one enuc...