Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy.
The pathogenesis of acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) is not fully understood. Some believe it to be a primary dysfunction of the retinal pigment epithelium while others assume that its development follows a choroidal vasculitis. It generally presents as a bilateral condition and shows no sex predilection. The visual prognosis is generally good, though severe and permanent visual loss occasionally occurs. The funduscopic presentation consists of multiple flat, yellow-white lesions of the posterior pole at the level of the retinal pigment epithelium. This paper discusses a case of APMPPE and reviews and summarizes the current literature on this disorder.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009887:Ophthalmoscopy; D010857:Pigment Epithelium of Eye; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D012737:Sex Factors; D014792:Visual Acuity