Foveomacular retinitis and associated optical coherence tomography findings.
A 45-year-old man presented with clinical manifestations of foveomacular retinitis, including visual symptoms and foveal lesions characteristic of solar retinopathy, but repeated questions failed to elicit a history of sun gazing. Cross-sectional retinal images produced by optical coherence tomography revealed localized loss of retinal pigment epithelium cells in both eyes. A different pattern of reflectivity at the level of the photoreceptor layer was observed between the right and left eye, reflecting asymmetry in tissue damage. This case is described to provide additional evidence that solar retinopathy and foveomacular retinitis are the same entity and may also have common optical coherence tomography findings.
Laboratory of Research and Clinical Applications in Ophthalmology, II Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Fotis
F
Topouzis
Archimidis
A
Koskosas
Theofanis
T
Pappas
Eleftherios
E
Anastasopoulos
Anastasia
A
Raptou
Konstantinos
K
Psilas
D005584:Fovea Centralis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010857:Pigment Epithelium of Eye / Q000473:pathology*; D012173:Retinitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*