title: Sudden unilateral blindness in a girl with Kawasaki disease.
abstract: This article describes a 9-year-old girl with clinical and laboratory features of Kawasaki disease. On day 7 of her febrile illness, she developed sudden loss of vision in the right eye. Visual acuity was no light perception. Dilated funduscopy showed diffuse intense retinal whitening, narrowing retinal arterioles, and a pale swollen disk-but no cherry-red spot. These findings suggested ophthalmic artery obstruction. Kawasaki disease can be sight-threatening.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Majid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Farvardin
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kashef
authors.forename: Soheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aleyasin
authors.forename: Sayed Hesameddin
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Nabavizadeh
authors.forename: Madjan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sajjadi
authors.forename: Mojgan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Safari
mesh_terms: D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009080:Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D009880:Ophthalmic Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D014792:Visual Acuity