Macular function and morphology in acute retinal pigment epithelitis

Abstract

A 20-year-old man applied with vision loss in the left eye. Right eye examination was unremarkable. Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in the left eye was 20/200. Fundus examination revealed a few yellow spots within a round-shaped macular lesion. Autofluorescence imaging showed hyperautofluorescence in the lesion. Central amplitudes in multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG) were depressed. The patient reported a rhinopharyngitis 7-10 days before the visual loss. The patient was diagnosed as acute retinal pigment epithelitis. BCVA improved gradually up to 20/20 in 4 weeks. mfERG amplitudes returned to normal. A slight pigmentary distortion was the only residual fundus finding.

Keywords

• Malignant glaucoma
• pseudophakic
• surgical management
• zonulo-hyaloido-vitrectomy
• Automated retinal imaging
• diabetic retinopathy
• screening
• Low vision
• low vision aids
• quality of life
• Children
• congenital cataract
• hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lens
• intraocular lens implantation
• myopic shift
• polymethyl methacrylate
• Cost-effectiveness
• glaucoma
• pharmacoeconomics
• External limiting membrane
• macular hole
• predictors
• Optic nerve head drusen
• optical coherence tomography
• papilledema
• pseudopapilloedema
• Crowding
• logMAR chart
• refractive error
• screening
• visual acuity
• Acute retinal pigment epithelitis
• multifocal electroretinogram
• optical coherence tomography