title: DETECTION OF CHOROIDAL FOLDS IN PATIENTS WITH VOGT-KOYANAGI-HARADA DISEASE BY RETROMODE SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether the choroidal folds in patients with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease can be detected by retromode of a scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) with infrared laser light source.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors examined two patients with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease at the acute stage by retromode imaging scanning laser ophthalmoscopy with an infrared laser before and after steroid treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The retromode imaging by scanning laser ophthalmoscopy clearly and noninvasively delineated the choroidal folds in both cases. The folds disappeared after steroid treatment and reappeared with recurrences of uveitis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The retromode imaging by scanning laser ophthalmoscopy can detect the choroidal folds and should be useful for detecting and monitoring the choroidal folds in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.
authors.affiliation: *Department of Ophthalmology, Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan; and †Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan.
authors.forename: Takamasa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.forename: Hiroko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Imaizumi
authors.forename: Hirotomo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katome
authors.forename: Yoshinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mitamura
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002829:Choroid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015862:Choroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D009887:Ophthalmoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D012008:Recurrence; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods; D014607:Uveomeningoencephalitic Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis