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Published on: May 26, 2023
CLINICAL VARIANTS OF PRESUMED ACUTE FOVEALITIS
Remo Turchetti Moraes1, Raul N G Vianna, Eduardo Cunha de Souza
1Brazilian Institute of Ophthalmology-IBOL, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Purpose:
To describe four eyes of three patients with presumed acute fovealitis to expand the clinical variants of this recently described disorder.
Method:
The patients underwent a comprehensive ophthalmic examination, including multimodal imaging and electrophysiological tests.
Results:
Three female patients aged from 18 to 24 years presented sudden central visual disturbances in one or both eyes. The visual acuity ranged from 20/25 to 20/70 in the affected eyes. All of them showed a subtle yellowish lesion in the foveola. Fundus autofluorescence and fluorescein angiography were unremarkable. Optical coherence tomography disclosed focal disarrangement of the outer retinal layers restricted to the fovea and hyperreflective lesions above the external limiting membrane. Multifocal electroretinography responses were attenuated. The electrooculogram response was normal. All patients recovered normal visual acuity and the outer retinal layers.
Conclusion:
Attenuated multifocal electroretinography foveal response and normal electrooculogram are newly described clinical findings in patients with acute fovealitis.
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