purpose: to report a case of idiopathic retinal vasculitis, aneurysm, and retinitis [irvan] with angiographic and optical coherence tomography (oct) findings. case report: a 15-year-old girl with a 2 -month history of decreased visual acuity in both eyes and best corrected visual acuity of 20/70 in both eyes was referred to the retina clinic. mild inflammation was present in anterior chamber an...

purpose: to report an idiopathic retinal vasculitis, aneurysm, neuroretinitis (irvan) case treated with one session of panretinal photocoagulation (prp) and intravitreal bevacizumab (avastin) case report: a 13-year-old boy was diagnosed as an irvan syndrome. systemic examination, fundus angiography, brain mri were performed to evaluate the patient. treatment with one session of prp, retinopexy ...

Retinal vasculitis is a poorly characterized, potentially sight-threatening, inflammatory ocular condition that occurs when there is the presence of abnormal blood vessels in the retina. The annual incidence of retinal vasculitis in the United States is estimated at 1-2 per 100,000 with variation between regions. Because it is not well understood, the definition of “retinal vasculitis” is not w...

AIMS To determine whether patients with idiopathic retinal vasculitis have altered production of cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEA-S), and whether differences in these variables occur between those who are sensitive (SS) and resistant (SR) to steroids. METHODS 20 patients with retinal vasculitis (off treatment) and 10 control subjects were prospectively recruited. Morning cor...

Background: The natural history of ocular lesions in Behçet's disease is toward severe loss of vision/blindness in few years, whereas cytotoxic drugs have changed the outcome. Several open labeled cohort studies showed pulse cyclophosphamide (PCP) to be the best choice. Since one third of these patients are resistant to PCP it is important to know how much improvement one can expect from the r...

This paper describes the ophthalmological features of 150 patients with idiopathic retinal vasculitis, 67 of whom had isolated retinal vasculitis (RV) and 83 had RV associated with systemic inflammatory disease (RV + SID). The diagnosis of retinal vasculitis was made by ophthalmoscopy and fluorescein angiography, and patients with any identifiable cause (infection, ischaemia, or malignancy) wer...

purpose : to investigate the risk factors and causes for blindness in behcet’s disease (bd). methods : in this preliminary retrospective case series we have investigated 27 bd patients (54 eyes), legally blind (vision 0.1 or less) at least in one eye at the last visit (2006), and compared them with 54 eyes of 27 non-blind patients (control group), matched individually and consequently in terms ...