Eales' disease with neurological involvement Part 1. Clinical features in 9 patients

Nine patients with characteristic changes of Eales' disease in the eye in whom there was neurological involvement, have been described. The characteristic neurological picture comprised an acute or subacute myelopathy occurring at an interval of a few weeks to a few years after the eye episode; in only 1 patient was there cerebral involvement without any evidence of myelopathy. Besides the involvement of spinal cord at the dorsal level in the 8 patients, there was evidence of additional lesions in the brain stem in 1 patient and in the cervical cord in another.