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Clinical course of focal choroidal excavation in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease

Fujinami, K; Nishikawa, Y; Watanabe, K; Noda, T; Tsunoda, K; Akiyama, K; (2014) Clinical course of focal choroidal excavation in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease. Clinical Ophthalmology , 8 pp. 2461-2465. 10.2147/OPTH.S75558. Green open access

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Abstract

We describe focal choroidal excavation (FCE) in a case of Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) disease and compare the findings with different chorioretinal conditions. A 55-year-old man was diagnosed with VKH based on panuveitis and exudative retinal detachments. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography demonstrated a dome-shaped protrusion with a nonconforming pattern at the fovea, which had been detected as a conforming pattern 1 year before the onset. The FCE pattern returned into a conforming pattern following corticosteroid therapy. These findings suggest that the natively existent FCE could be affected by pathophysiological changes of VKH as well as other chorioretinal conditions.

Type: Article
Title: Clinical course of focal choroidal excavation in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S75558
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S75558
Language: English
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Keywords: choroidal excavation, focal choroidal excavation, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease, optical coherence tomography
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1482093
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