Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil University (Jan 2015)

Is it Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome?

  • Digambar Dashatwar,
  • Neha Singh,
  • Sumit Kar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0975-2870.148851
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 62 – 64

Abstract

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Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome (VKH syndrome) is named after ophthalmologists Alfred Vogt from Switzerland and Yoshizo Koyanagi and Einosuke Harada from Japan. It is an uncommon multisystem disorder characterized by chronic, bilateral, diffuse granulomatous uveitis with associated dermatological, neurological and auditory manifestations. It is an autoimmune disease directed against melanocytes. We report a case presenting with vitiligo, auditory defect with additional dextrocardia.

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