Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Volume 244, Number 7, 880-882, DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0172-7

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Case Report

Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy in the fellow eye 5 years after presentation of punctate inner choroidopathy

Kurenai Taira, Mitsuru Nakazawa, Yoshiko Takano and Takuya Ota

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Abstract

Background  

There has been argument about the relationship between posterior inner choroidopathy (PIC) and acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR).

Method  

Case study.

Results  

A 26-year-old woman was diagnosed as having PIC in the right eye in 1998. Multiple yellow–white lesions in the inner choroid and retina were found in the posterior pole of her right eye and were treated with corticosteroid therapy. In 2003, she was referred to us complaining of visual field defect in the left eye. By means of electroretinographic and static perimetric analyses, she was diagnosed as having AZOOR in the left eye.

Conclusion  

This case presents indirect evidence that PIC and AZOOR may have some common etiologic or pathogenic background.

Keywords  AZOOR - PIC - Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy - Punctate inner choroiditis - Blind spot enlargement

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