A Case of a Young Asymptomatic Woman with Optic Disc Drusen and Vasculitis

PURPOSE: We present the case of a young woman with optic disc drusen and peripheral vasculitis. METHODS: Diagnosis was based on fundoscopic, optical coherence tomography as well as fluorescein angiography (FA) findings. RESULTS: An asymptomatic 34-year-old female patient with no systemic pathology w...

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Autores principales: Rotsos, Tryfon, Symeonidis, Chrysanthos, Rana, Mrinal, Deane, James S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2011
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Published: July 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3150971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21829407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000329715
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Symeonidis, Chrysanthos
Rana, Mrinal
Deane, James S.
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description PURPOSE: We present the case of a young woman with optic disc drusen and peripheral vasculitis. METHODS: Diagnosis was based on fundoscopic, optical coherence tomography as well as fluorescein angiography (FA) findings. RESULTS: An asymptomatic 34-year-old female patient with no systemic pathology was referred to our hospital from her optician for retinal findings. Fundoscopy revealed mild disc swelling that could be attributed to the presence of optic disc drusen in both eyes. There was fundoscopic evidence of periphlebitis in the periphery confirmed by FA findings. CONCLUSIONS: In our case, the unique feature was the presence of optic disc drusen and retinal periphlebitis. The patient's disc configuration may have contributed to a predisposition for vasculitis in addition to vessel tortuosity.
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spelling pubmed-31509712011-08-09 A Case of a Young Asymptomatic Woman with Optic Disc Drusen and Vasculitis Rotsos, Tryfon Symeonidis, Chrysanthos Rana, Mrinal Deane, James S. Case Rep Ophthalmol Published: July 2011 PURPOSE: We present the case of a young woman with optic disc drusen and peripheral vasculitis. METHODS: Diagnosis was based on fundoscopic, optical coherence tomography as well as fluorescein angiography (FA) findings. RESULTS: An asymptomatic 34-year-old female patient with no systemic pathology was referred to our hospital from her optician for retinal findings. Fundoscopy revealed mild disc swelling that could be attributed to the presence of optic disc drusen in both eyes. There was fundoscopic evidence of periphlebitis in the periphery confirmed by FA findings. CONCLUSIONS: In our case, the unique feature was the presence of optic disc drusen and retinal periphlebitis. The patient's disc configuration may have contributed to a predisposition for vasculitis in addition to vessel tortuosity. S. Karger AG 2011-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3150971/ /pubmed/21829407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000329715 Text en Copyright © 2011 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: July 2011
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Symeonidis, Chrysanthos
Rana, Mrinal
Deane, James S.
A Case of a Young Asymptomatic Woman with Optic Disc Drusen and Vasculitis
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title_full A Case of a Young Asymptomatic Woman with Optic Disc Drusen and Vasculitis
title_fullStr A Case of a Young Asymptomatic Woman with Optic Disc Drusen and Vasculitis
title_full_unstemmed A Case of a Young Asymptomatic Woman with Optic Disc Drusen and Vasculitis
title_short A Case of a Young Asymptomatic Woman with Optic Disc Drusen and Vasculitis
title_sort case of a young asymptomatic woman with optic disc drusen and vasculitis
topic Published: July 2011
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3150971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21829407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000329715
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