Ozurdex for the Treatment of a Patient with Birdshot Chorioretinopathy

We report a 57-year-old patient with birdshot chorioretinopathy (BCR) who was treated with bilateral Ozurdex injections. The patient's vitritis resolved, and visual acuity improved following this treatment. This is only the second case report focused on the treatment of BCR with Ozurdex and the...

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Autores principales: Moisseiev, Elad, Moshiri, Ala
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Published online: September, 2015
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26483669
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000437044
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description We report a 57-year-old patient with birdshot chorioretinopathy (BCR) who was treated with bilateral Ozurdex injections. The patient's vitritis resolved, and visual acuity improved following this treatment. This is only the second case report focused on the treatment of BCR with Ozurdex and the first to report its use for treating vitritis. A concise review of the literature on the use of intravitreal steroids for this disease is provided. This case serves to report the clinical usefulness of Ozurdex in treating posterior vitritis associated with BCR even in the absence of macular edema.
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spelling pubmed-46086352015-10-19 Ozurdex for the Treatment of a Patient with Birdshot Chorioretinopathy Moisseiev, Elad Moshiri, Ala Case Rep Ophthalmol Published online: September, 2015 We report a 57-year-old patient with birdshot chorioretinopathy (BCR) who was treated with bilateral Ozurdex injections. The patient's vitritis resolved, and visual acuity improved following this treatment. This is only the second case report focused on the treatment of BCR with Ozurdex and the first to report its use for treating vitritis. A concise review of the literature on the use of intravitreal steroids for this disease is provided. This case serves to report the clinical usefulness of Ozurdex in treating posterior vitritis associated with BCR even in the absence of macular edema. S. Karger AG 2015-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4608635/ /pubmed/26483669 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000437044 Text en Copyright © 2015 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Distribution permitted for non-commercial purposes only.
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Ozurdex for the Treatment of a Patient with Birdshot Chorioretinopathy
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