Related Experiment Video
Updated: Feb 4, 2026

Integrated Photoacoustic Ophthalmoscopy and Spectral-domain Optical Coherence Tomography
Published on: January 15, 2013
RECURRENT ACUTE RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIITIS: SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY AND OPTICAL COHERENCE
Juan José Toledo1, Jesús Ramón García, Mónica Asencio
1La Paz, University Hospital, Madrid, Spain .
Purpose:
To describe an atypical case of acute retinal pigment epitheliitis including spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography features.
Methods:
We report a 41-year-old woman with 3 episodes of acute retinal pigment epitheliitis over a 3-year period. Spectral domain OCT and OCT angiography images were acquired with Cirrus 5,000 spectral domain OCT.
Results:
Although acute retinal pigment epitheliitis is described as a benign, self-limited pathology, as this case shows, recurrences are possible. OCT angiography shows a choriocapillaris alteration and further recovery during the acute episodes.
Conclusion:
Acute retinal pigment epitheliitis can present as a recurrent disease.
Related Concept Videos
Computed Tomography
The technique was invented in the 1970s and is based on the principle that as X-rays pass through the body, they are absorbed or reflected at different levels. In the technique, a patient lies on a motorized platform while a computerized axial tomography (CAT) scanner rotates...
Positron Emission Tomography
One of the main requirements of a PET scan is a positron-emitting radioisotope, which is produced in a cyclotron and then attached to a substance used by the part of the body...
Properties of Enantiomers and Optical Activity
Imaging Studies III: Computed Tomography
Imaging Biological Samples with Optical Microscopy
In optical microscopy, the specimen to be viewed is placed on a glass slide and clipped on the stage...
Imaging Studies II: Positron Emission Tomography and Scintigraphy
Fundamental Principles of PET

