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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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