title: Proliferative vascular retinopathy in polymyositis and dermatomyositis with scleroderma (overlap syndrome).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the occurrence of proliferative vascular retinopathy in two patients with polymyositis/dermatomyositis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of case records.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One patient presented, six years after the diagnosis of polymyositis, with obliteration of the superior retinal vessels and associated neovascularization of the disc. The second patient with overlap syndrome was detected to have occlusion of the inferotemporal retinal arteriole and venule with early neovascularization of the retina.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Retinal vascular occlusion with development of proliferative changes can occur in polymyositis/dermatomyositis. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this has not been reported earlier in the literature.
authors: Dr. Rajendra Prasad Center for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India. venkyprao@yahoo.com
authors: Pradeep
authors: P
authors: Venkatesh
authors: Vivek M
authors: VM
authors: Bhaskar
authors: Ravi
authors: R
authors: Keshavamurthy
authors: Satpal
authors: S
authors: Garg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003882:Dermatomyositis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D017075:Laser Coagulation; D008297:Male; D015861:Retinal Neovascularization / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D012170:Retinal Vein Occlusion / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D013577:Syndrome