Acute retinal pigment epitheliitis.
OBJECTIVE
To report a patient with acute retinal pigment epitheliitis examined less than 24 hours after onset of symptoms.


METHODS
One day after the onset of blurred vision in her left eye, a 33-year-old woman had a best-corrected visual acuity of LE, 20/60 -2. The left eye had classic uniform golden-colored nodules in a honeycomb pattern in the foveal retinal pigment epithelium. Intravenous fundus fluorescein angiography disclosed staining of the foveal pigment epithelium.


RESULTS
One month after initial examination, visual acuity was LE, 20/20, and fine subfoveal pigmentary clumping was present.


CONCLUSIONS
The pigmentary maculopathy of acute retinal pigment epitheliitis may be nonspecific, resulting from more than one type of primary foveal inflammation.
Luttrull
J K
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D009887:Ophthalmoscopy; D010857:Pigment Epithelium of Eye; D012173:Retinitis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014792:Visual Acuity