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Bilateral Lupus Chorioretinopathy in a Patient With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Ocular involvement is commonly seen in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, chorioretinopathy is an easily missed ocular manifestation of SLE. Early recognition and a multidisciplinary treatment approach can play a key role in reducing the ocular and systemic morbidity seen with this conditi...

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Autores principales: David, Sharoon, Davidson, Sarah O, Grigorian, Ruben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9640358/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36381826
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30081
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description Ocular involvement is commonly seen in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, chorioretinopathy is an easily missed ocular manifestation of SLE. Early recognition and a multidisciplinary treatment approach can play a key role in reducing the ocular and systemic morbidity seen with this condition. This case report describes a patient with active SLE who presented with bilateral lupus chorioretinopathy. The patient demonstrated a significant improvement in ocular symptoms once the systemic disease was controlled.
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spelling pubmed-96403582022-11-14 Bilateral Lupus Chorioretinopathy in a Patient With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus David, Sharoon Davidson, Sarah O Grigorian, Ruben Cureus Ophthalmology Ocular involvement is commonly seen in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, chorioretinopathy is an easily missed ocular manifestation of SLE. Early recognition and a multidisciplinary treatment approach can play a key role in reducing the ocular and systemic morbidity seen with this condition. This case report describes a patient with active SLE who presented with bilateral lupus chorioretinopathy. The patient demonstrated a significant improvement in ocular symptoms once the systemic disease was controlled. Cureus 2022-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9640358/ /pubmed/36381826 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30081 Text en Copyright © 2022, David et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Ophthalmology
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Davidson, Sarah O
Grigorian, Ruben
Bilateral Lupus Chorioretinopathy in a Patient With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title Bilateral Lupus Chorioretinopathy in a Patient With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_full Bilateral Lupus Chorioretinopathy in a Patient With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_fullStr Bilateral Lupus Chorioretinopathy in a Patient With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Lupus Chorioretinopathy in a Patient With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_short Bilateral Lupus Chorioretinopathy in a Patient With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_sort bilateral lupus chorioretinopathy in a patient with active systemic lupus erythematosus
topic Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9640358/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36381826
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30081
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