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Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:989-990.

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Ramsay Hunt syndrome is a herpes zoster infection of cranial nerve VII, causing facial paralysis, and may also involve cranial nerves VIII, IX, V, X, and VI, in order of decreasing frequency.¹ Necrotizing herpetic retinopathy refers to the spectrum of disease encompassing acute retinal necrosis and progressive outer retinal necrosis, and consists of peripheral necrotizing retinitis, vitritis, and retinal arteritis caused by a herpes virus.² To our knowledge, we describe the first case of bilateral necrotizing herpetic retinopathy in an immunosuppressed patient with Ramsay Hunt syndrome.

Report of a Case

A 38-year-old woman with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (CD4 cell count 2 months prior was 214/µL) had vesicular lesions in the distribution of left cranial nerve V3, left-sided hearing loss, left facial weakness, and decreased vision in the left eye. Visual acuity with pinhole was 20/25 OD and 20/30 OS. Slitlamp examination revealed anterior vitreous cells in the left eye. Results of dilated fundus examination . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Corresponding author: Janet L. Davis, MD, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, 900 NW 17th St, Miami, FL 33136 (e-mail: jdavis@bpei.med.miami.edu).