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Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:88-90.

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Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is a viral retinitis occurring predominantly in immunocompetent persons. Clinical diagnosis is based on the presence of 1 or more peripheral foci of retinal necrosis that show rapid circumferential progression and often result in early retinal detachment. Characteristically, the active phase is associated with anterior chamber inflammation and vitritis. We report a series of cases in which recurrent anterior uveitis (AU) occurred in the absence of recurrence of posterior segment inflammatory activity or retinitis, after the initial episode of healed ARN. No patient was infected with human immunodeficiency virus. All patients responded to treatment with topical corticosteroids and mydriatics, without recourse to further antiviral treatment; they did not commonly experience a subsequent attack of ARN. To our knowledge, this is the first report of isolated recurrent AU following healed ARN.

Acute retinal necrosis is a fulminant viral retinitis first described in 1971 by Urayama et al¹ . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Corresponding author: Susan Lightman, PhD, FRCP, FRCOphth, Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Road, London EC1V 2PD, England (e-mail: s.lightman@ucl.ac.uk).

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