title: Presumed inflammatory maculopathies.
abstract: The macular disorders are classified according to the originally affected layer and the probable cause of the disease: presumed inflammatory or traumatic, iatrogenic, toxic, metabolic or trophic, and hereditary. Three young female patients are reported who had presumed inflammatory diseases: CBPE-complex (APMPPE), pigment epithelium (pigment epitheliitis), and neuroretina (acute macular neuroretinopathy). APMPPE is considered to be a choriocapillaritis closely related to a soft photocoagulate. They recommend careful follow-up of acute neuroretinopathy because through "disuse" a disease of one layer may progress to other layers as they are metabolically interdependent.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics; D008266:Macula Lutea; D010857:Pigment Epithelium of Eye; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics