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Acute Annular Outer Retinopathy

Chui M. G. Cheung, MRCOphth; Vinod Kumar, FRCS(Edin); Tariq Saeed, MBBS; Jonathan M. Gibson, MD, FRCOphth; Philip I. Murray, PhD, FRCOphth
Birmingham, England

Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:993.

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A 58-YEAR-OLD white woman was examined because of a 5-day history of an enlarged blind spot in her left eye. She was taking azathioprine, 50 mg once daily, for Crohn disease. Her visual acuity was 20/30 OU. A peripapillary, annular gray-white ring was seen in the left fundus (Figure 1). A week later, the ring had enlarged to involve the fovea (Figure 2). Her visual acuity deteriorated to hand movements, and she developed a left afferent pupillary defect. Photopic electroretinographic responses were delayed and reduced. A fundus fluorescein angiogram showed a hypofluorescent ring with a hyperfluorescent area within (Figure 3, Figure 4, and Figure 5), which was also seen in the late phase (30 minutes) of the indocyanine green angiogram (. . . [Full Text of this Article]



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