Sympathetic uveitis after giant tear repair.
A 33-year-old Hispanic man developed sympathetic ophthalmia 4.5 months after vitrectomy and repeat scleral buckling for a giant retinal tear in an aphakic previously traumatized eye. The patient had gray-white, subretinal nodules with characteristic changes of sympathetic uveitis detected by fluorescein angiography. The fluorescein angiographic and clinical findings revealed a dramatic response to steroid treatment: visual acuity returned to the previous 20/20 level within 5 weeks of therapy.
Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, SUNY, Stony Brook.
J M
JM
Maisel
P A
PA
Vorwerk
D000328:Adult; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008297:Male; D009879:Ophthalmia, Sympathetic / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012167:Retinal Perforations / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D012591:Scleral Buckling; D013997:Time Factors; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014821:Vitrectomy
D011241:Prednisone